Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.

Warsan Shire
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen...
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen...
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen...
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen...
About This Quote

This quote is about the sadness that comes with loving your mother. The ideas of love and grief are often intertwined in this poem. Love for one's mother is often mixed with the feeling of grieving about her passing. The idea is that when mothers die, they put their sons through a lot of difficulty.

Often, their grief over their mothers' death is so great that they cannot function properly in the world after they have lost their mothers. Some men come with keys to unlock her heart and allow it to feel again, while others come with hammers to smash it into pieces when it is open again.

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