Whenever my mom talks too much, I say she has Pac-man of the mouth.
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything...
She was her own Enigma Code and me and my dad were not Bletchley Park.
There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.
What their scorned, over-fucked mothers never teach them is this: men can be hurt, too.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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 so...
It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at...
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.
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.
There's an old joke about a mother watching a column of soldiers pass by. Her son is in the ranks. All those men out of step, she says, except our Fred.
A good mother is irreplaceable.
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
Because it is the lot of mothers to remember what no one else cares to, Mrs. Dutta thinks. To tell them over and over until they are lodged, perforce, in family lore. We are the keepers of the heart's...
Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now yo...
But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.
Every small boy wonders why his father didn't go into the ice cream business.
Off so stupid mothers... so stupid plans... what are you planning..., for god sake???