569 Quotes About Mothers

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.

And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…

Nedense evdeki tüm ilaçları yutup kendimi öldüreceğim gibi tuhaf bir düşünceye kapılmıştı. Oysa kim böyle bir salaklık yapar ki? Kendini camdan aşağı atmak varken. Anneler böyledir zaten. Olur olmadık konularda evhamlanırlar. Evrimsel nedenlerle. Girmeyeceğim ayrıntıya

And say to mothers what a holy chargeIs theirs—with what a kingly power their loveMight rule the fountains of the new-born mind

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them more thoroughly than anyone else in our lives. We sift through the evidence of their love, reassure ourselves of their affection and its biological genesis. We can steal and lie and leave and they will love us.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.