569 Quotes About Mothers

For if the nature of the story is such that my mother left me with deficits and scars, I can know that the nature of God is such that He will leave me blessings and health.

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

Pets are almost always fatal, to oneself or to them. It is the curse of possession or motherhood. Mothers ruin their children, choke them like ivy. Dog-lovers steal the souls of their dogs and lose something in exchange. There is an essay on this subject by (I think) Stella Benson called “A Firefly to Steer By.” Everybody ought to read it.

Mother; that woman who still considers you a child irrespective of the stage you are in life

Biology does not make a man a father--nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.

All of us think our mothers have to be perfect, better than anyone else. It's too bad we don't see them as people until we grow up ourselves.

Ellen sighs and looks over at Leo. "I did that, didn't I? No goddamn manners. Like a couple of little opossums. This is why they say women can't have it all.

Parenting isn't something you do. It's who you are. You are a mother. You are a father.

Grief needs an outlet. Creativity offers one. Some psychiatrists see mourning and creativity as the perfect marriage, the thought processes of one neatly complementing the other. A child’s contradictory impulses to both acknowledge and deny a parent’s death represents precisely the type of rich ambiguity that inspires artistic expression.