Her profound message of passionate, righteous, maternal anger aside, my favorite part of her speech was when, about halfway through, she completely loses her train of thought and has absolutely no idea what she’s saying and struggles and stutters until her brain engages once again. I belly laughed with great affection — and familiarity — and thought to myself, “Yep. She’s a mother.”
“Surely this award belongs to all the mothers of the world. May they be seen, may their work be valued and raised, especially the mothers who stand with an open heart and wait…wait for their children to come home…from danger, from harm’s way, and from war. I am proud to be one of those women. And let’s face it…if mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamned wars in the first place. Thank you.”
— Actor Sally Field during her acceptance speech, Emmy Awards, September 16th, 2007
About muffybolding
Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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