There is a world of difference between the experienceof ‘care’ – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basicbiological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us wantto live

There is a world of difference between the experienceof ‘care’ – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basicbiological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us wantto live. (Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution)