569 Quotes About Mothers

But our mother, the most distant from him, perhaps, seemed the only one who could accept him as he was, maybe because she didn't try to find an explanation.

..she unleashed the disappointed look all mothers had used to cower their children from the dawn of time.

Eventually, as men continue to spit antiquated perspectives into the faces of the majority gender, they will be reminded, rather loudly, that they never would have existed but for a woman.

She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park.

My only inheritance from you was your torment

Mothers are the backbone and strength of civilizations. - Strong by Kailin Gow

She is like a mathematical equation, always there and impossible to disprove.

Maybe the mother manages to be a mirror only part of the time. In such 'tantalizing' cases, some babies learn to withdraw their own needs when the mother's are evident.

I guess I felt like I'd failed her [by throwing up]. She had so many demands on her...The one thing she needed from me was that I not need anything from her [Bechdel's mother].