569 Quotes About Mothers


  • Author Caroline Kennedy
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    Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can’t do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.

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  • Author J.D. Salinger
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    She looked like she might have a pretty damn good idea what bastard she was the mother of. But you can’t always tell - with somebody’s mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

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  • Author Alison Bechdel
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    But, Jocelyn, if I really were all those things [good, kind, talented, hard working, open to change, and adorable]... ...I would die.'I wasn't sure what I meant by this, but it suddenly struck me as the truth.'Because you'd rather die than feel anger at your mother for not giving you what you needed?

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  • Author Niedria Dionne Kenny
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    This book is not for people who read covers. Hence the reason the “about this book” section is on the inside. Because it will take that level of understanding to interpret the inside. The will, to want to read. You have to be willing to open the book, to find out about the book. - The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny

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  • Author Augusten Burroughs
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    And if I said "because I'm a witch," they'd think I was crazy.''That's exactly right,' she confirmed.'Because everybody knows witches aren't real.'She nodded. 'Yes.''Except they really are real.'She continued nodding. 'Mm-hmm.''But you also told me Santa and the tooth fairy were real.''Those were lies,' she said. 'But they're lies every parent tells their children. So they're not really lies so much as a script.''I slept with teeth under my pillow, so it seems like a lie to me.

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