‘Women Who Have Inspired Me’

March 8, 2014 | 2 min read

As 8th March 2014 dawned, I remembered myself as a woman, a thing I rarely do. I look upon myself as an individual, a rebellious non-conformist, but just an individual with strong opinions about everything.Yet today, knowing that it is a day when life is supposed to centre around women, (not that on other days it doesn’t), I remembered some women who have inspired me ever since I was a teenager.
Mother, The Mother: A Novel by Pearl S. Buck

The Mother: A Novel

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Mother, The Mother: A Novel

Next was the intuitive, caring MOTHER in Pearl S. Buck’s The Mother, whose sacrificing ways won my heart and urged me to become a better mother myself.

“Buck has never done better work than this. By a great gift of intuition she has entered into the mind, heart and spirit of the Chinese peasant woman and revealed the permanent values of life,” wrote The Times Literary Supplement.

Suggested Reading:
The Mother

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Monika Pant is the author of Echoes From The Vortex (A Memoir) and Caught in Two Winds. Her stories and poems are published in several anthologies around the world. Her real life snippets are published in the Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul series and a short story written by her was listed for the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

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