Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

…my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks,...

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.

Motherhood furnishes us with, not just giving life — but, partaking of life’s learning.

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the ’50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

the onewho gave me the seed which allowed for your presence.

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won’t complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

She’d never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she’d had...

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

My 68-year-old mother, Dora Simpson, got up on a ladder and painted one of these rooms. She and my sons – Issac, Terry, Nakia and Tony – helped with the cleanup and painting. I’m grateful...

My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don’t remember her. I do remember, though, when it was just my father and me, before he met...

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‘A-hem!’ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and...

She was like another mother to me. I used to wake up every morning and look at that picture, and now it’s gone.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of...

Pray for good.Pray for happy.And always pray for Mom.

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.

When Eleanor was a little girl, she’d thought her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale.Not a princess – princesses are just pretty. Eleanor’s mother was beautiful. She was tall...

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back...

Cheney brought my mother up to the casket, so she could pay her respects. She is in her 80’s, and she has glaucoma and has trouble seeing. There were steps, and he left her there....

There is No Greater Satisfaction God greater then mother.

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country’s civil war in the late 1960s.

When my mother threw a party, even as a kid, she’d call me in and say, ‘Organize it for me.’

How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you ‘Mama,’ but ‘Renata.’