Alexander McCall Smith Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. August 24, 1948
Birthday: August 24
Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.
source: FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Dec 12, 2016 
topic: Daughter, Mother, Running, Self Defence
