Motherhood & tea-towel

"This Kahlil Gibram-esque sense of parent-as-caretaker rather than as owner is of course also the thing that, as they slam the front door shut for the last time, [...] ensures that I will feel like an old torn tea-towel, crumpled up, chucked into the cupboard under the sink and duly consigned to a future of dusty pointlessness after years of domestic frontline duty."

Kathryn Flett, Upfront
The Observer Magazine, 10 May 2009, p.5