Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine May - Mother's Day Issue | Page 64

Their Mot
her’s Wisdom
Laverne AsIam: Don’t go outside in raggedy underwear and embarrass me, but now I
don’t do it because I don’t want to be embarrassed on the operating table
Lawanda Metcalfe: Always be lady and to protect your reputation because once it is lost
it hard to regain.
Ellen Kiley Goeckler: Be careful. Smarter people than you have been conked on the
head!
Yolanda Buick: Never be jealous of what anyone has. You can work to have the same if
not better.
Mona Grant-Holmes: If there is something you don’t want anyone to know, don’t put it
in writing.
Priscilla Jackson: Be sure whatever you start off doing/taking in a relationship is some-
thing you can keep doing/taking in the relationship.
Cynthia Manson: Start out the way you can hold out. In a relationship, you can’t try to
be all and do all.