Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.

People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.

Don’t you know, you idiot, that that is what every fool of a woman says about her child?Miss Bulstrode’s thoughts.

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.

Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had....

I don’t see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

Womanhood is a wonderful thing. In womankind we find the mothers of the race.There is no man so great, nor none sunk so low, but once he lay a helpless, innocent babe in a woman’s...

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s.

We dragged Linc along. His current honey is working tonight.””Still the intern?””Yeah.” Helen sat on the curvy velvet chaise, made herself at home. “I’m starting to think he’sgetting serious about her.””And?””I don’t know. She’s a...

you wereand always will bethat first ever touchto have fertilizedthe groundbeneath my life’s treesthat first ever roseto have fragrancedthe rest of my memories.

The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his children. It is because of her that you have the greatest treasures in your life....

The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother’s life – without flinching or whining – the stronger the daughter.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust’s reply was ‘To be separated from Mama.’) I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be...

She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she...

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

I was always mortified.Didn’t they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren’t chains ashamed of their prisoners?

The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the...

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don’t want their kids… but when you look more closely, you realize that they’re doing those kids a favor. They’re just trying to give them...

But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she’d say “Hey, honey!” just I was walking out the apartment door. And me stopping and turning around and saying “What?” And her saying “I love...

When you’re sorting yourself out, family are not often the ones you can turn to. They represent the place of departure and not the place of arrival.

When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything,...

She taught me what’s important, and what isn’t. And I’ve never forgotten. And that’s what mothers do, I say.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there’s someone else to do the housework.

She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand,...

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are...

Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy round of youthful pleasure and folly heed her wise counsels. How lightly do we look upon...

When God Created Mothers”When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of “overtime” when the angel appeared and said. “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.” And...

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever met.

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.

I suffer from CLAUSTROPHOBIA, a fear of closed spaces.For example, I’m petrified that the WINE store will be closed before I have time to get there!!!

And I can’t die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I’m a cracked plate.

Does your ma know you’re this silly?” she demanded tartly.He nodded, comically sad. “The few gray hairs she has on her head are my doing. But” — with an exaggerated change of mood — “I...

I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have...

…these mothers at their midnight council were more like one great mind probing itself, divided at times as great minds may be, but one entity

But mothers lie. It’s in the job description.

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example.

Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.

Hideo,” said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, “you haven’t found any kind...

It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.

A mother’s love: the sacred relationship of affording a nanny so as to be tolerated as a granny.

Our fathers were demons,’ Catarina said. ‘Our mothers were heroes.

If my mother’s intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case...

My mama is my feeding bottle… She never goes empty no matter how deep I sip! Thank you mum!