Paula Meehan Quotes Flashcards
Colloquial language
“Yer Ma”
“Spare me”
“Tanner”
Memory of her parents fighting
“As Zeus and Hera battled it out”
Meehan was slapped across the face by her mother
“The sting of her hand across my face”
When Meehan and her mother had
“Grown bitter apart”
She has yet to visit her mother grave
“I’ve never gone back to visit her grave”
Lack of understanding between Mother and Daughter
“She favoured sensible shades/I dreamt a robe of colour so pure it became a word”
Meehans mothers father shoved her
“Whole head under the kitchen tap”
Her father
“Scrubbed every spick of lipstick and mascara” off her face
Her father deployed metaphorical
“Thunderbolts”
Her mother could give a look so dirty they could kill
“For his every thunderbolt/ she had the killing glance”
Tennis metaphor
“I’m net, umpire, and court; most balls are lobbed over my head”
Hurtful statements of (go between the two parents)
“Tell your mother” “ask your father”
(After her father gave her his wages)Her mother
“Straightened each rumpled pound note”
The poverty caused her mother to
“Throw the lot in the fire”
The money in the fire creates an
“Alchemical scene”
