Art Linkletter said, "Growing old isn't for sissies." He was absolutely right. My memory isn't what it was 10 years ago. I now have more patience with others and with myself. I said, "No," and she said, "Well, then we're not going to ruin three lives." She never made me feel ashamed.Ĥ. But when I was 16 and I told her I was pregnant, she asked if I loved the baby's father. When I was very young, she had no patience with me or my brother. You held her hand and told her: "You were a terrible mother of small children, but there has never been anyone greater than you as a mother of a young adult." Was that hard to say and write? In your book, you describe the hospital scene when your mother was in a coma, the day before she died. Now I'm a mother and a grandmother and a great-grandmother. Your mother, who was a nurse, merchant marine and community activist, died in 1991 when she was 79. When she lived in Stockton (Calif.), everyone called her Lady but didn't know why. I called her Lady, and she was OK with that. I didn't really see much of my mom until I was about 13. Her mother, Vivian Baxter, is the focus of Angelou's latest book, "Mom & Me & Mom" (Random House, out Tuesday ),which she discusses with USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer. In her celebrated 1969 memoir, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Maya Angelou describes being raised by her grandmother after being abandoned by her mother at age 3.
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