He is a boy, just as boys are. A little dull, maybe, but he hasn't had the...

He is a boy, just as boys are. A little dull, maybe, but he hasn't had the advantages we've had.'
'Which are?' prompted Glinda.
'Even for a short time,' said Elphaba, 'we had a mother. Giddy, alcoholic, imaginative, uncertain, desperate, brave, stubborn, supportive woman. We had her. Melena.