There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.
Motherhood can be seen as a political act. (...) when adressed, disconnections can become opportunities (...) Even when sons seem to be disinterested (...), a mother's efforts are extremely important....
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...
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
I guess I felt like I'd failed her [by throwing up]. She had so many demands on her...The one thing she needed from me was that I not need anything from her [Bechdel's mother].
A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
Never underestimate the fury of an angry mother, Caspar. They're the most vicious creatures in the world.
My mother and I looked at each other then, full in the face, more frankly than we'd done since I was small. I realized with a jolt that I was taller than she was by at least half a foot. When on earth...
I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn't allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a boy of my age needed was i...
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from the above.
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...
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
The big difference between my mom and me-- besides the fact that she is dead normal and I'm a magic-handling freak-- is that she's the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people's p...
My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.
If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.
Alice Miller writes that the child who suppresses his own feelings in order to accomodate a parent has been, in a sense, abandoned.'Later, when these feelings of being deserted begin to emerge in the...
A good mother is irreplaceable.