1,809 Quotes About Mom

And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.

Even when we die

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

To see your mother as a baby, that is what it's like, and therefore heartbreaking and wretched, and therefore also cleansing in some crooked way, the self wiped clean of static, pared down to its essentials, the human core that bore you, which was borne.

Every time just for may parent

During her life, their mom had been like a folded paper fan to them, and they were slowly starting to unfurl her, fold by fold, to see the delicate, ornate pattern painted on her skin. It was hard to let that go, to simply snap the fan shut once she knew what fascinating complexities were inside.

Isn’t a daughter’s perspective on her mother’s life always a little myopic?

You are the jewelin the crown of motherhood.

TURNING INTO Swingin` fromA hick`ry boughI felt so braveI hollered...WoWBut down I fellJust like a bombAnd I heard my "wow"Turn into...MoM