Mama said it’s probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don’t think I really...

A person who has ‘tidied up’ has both the words and a tidy area to show for it. It is much harder to find a word that describes the giving-up-things mode of attention a mother...

MOM – noun – One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, memory, energy and sanity for LOVE!

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn’t have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

my mother and then my mom then my mom

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart.

Every problem has a solution. You may not see it in front of you, but, sooner or later, a solution will appear before your eyes.

You don’t have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been...

Well, she didn’t lock us up in closets.” in fact, my mother behaved much worse than that, but by focusing on the empty closet, I avoided looking at what waited beyond it.

Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and...

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother’s lampshades to make a dress....

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother’s Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture’s bad people and behavior.

once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of hair pins pony tail fasteners, stashes of powders, colonies of tiny lipsticks (p.39)

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It’s never an issue for me.

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and...

I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I’m so much more balanced than I was.

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don’t think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don’t know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never...

A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!

It’s like my parents’ musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It’s their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

… I’ll tell her about Tia. I’ll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I’ll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.

Weren’t you the one who tried to cut father’s throat before he Claimed you?””He deserved it,

I won’t have my son doing drugs to get awoman that he shall never have.

The school is a mother

There was a pause as Leopardstar strained to take a breath, and Mistyfoot half rose, ready to call for help. Then Leopardstar relaxed again. “I am sorry not to have known the joy of having...

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, ‘Don’t worry, next time you will have a son.’

It was a nightmare nobody should have to endure, and I decided to make sure no other mother would ever have to go through this to bury her child.

Having a child doesn’t make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.

The air in my home is heavy with my mom’s unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And I hate it. I can be up in my room when she’s in...

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother’s womb!

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, ‘I don’t ever remember seeing you with an apron on.’ And I thought, that’s right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what...

remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned…you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don’t anybody raise you from the way you have...

But, Mom, don’t you remember your promise?” If I did, it would be a way of asking for something, and asking my mother for something was always dangerous because of the risk of disappointment.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

No, Karl, not now. Take it easy. It’s our happy day.”Poul-Erik’s MotherThe Informer by Steen Langstrup

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn’t know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and...

Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they’re doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well.

He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have been the same. He would have lived all his years the same way. They played no...

i want to stay curled and cosiedand chocolated….foreverin my mother’s arms.

Chip, I know you don’t understand this, but I’d take it as a personal favor if you’d stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.

When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.

I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother’s security in Pakistan.