My mother, my heroine: “She stayed by a violent husband’s side to protect us”

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They share the admiration they feel for their mother. In the second episode, Ami (1), 38, describes the sacrificial nature of her mother.

“For a year, my mother had to take public transport to come and see me in the hospital, even though at the time she couldn’t read at all.” (The Good Brigade/Getty Images)

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“She is my horizon of beauty, love and motherhood. […] My mother has always been for me the most beautiful in the world, the most resilient whatever the limits of this word,” writes the writer Hemley Boum in a post published on her Instagram account in December 2024. This tribute in which she praises the virtues of the one who brought her into the world resonates with the words of those who chose, on the occasion of Mother’s Day, to tell Libé about the admiration they have for their mother. Today, Ami (1), a 38-year-old public writer in Vernouillet (Yvelines), tells how her mother always made sure to protect her from her father’s violence.