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].
MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well I know how much you need your sleep so it was going to strike ten but I stopped i...
All mothers are slightly insane.
My mother is not evil, Faith reminded herself. She is just a perfectly sensible snake, protecting her eggs and making her way in the world as best she can.
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
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...
There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible her mother's cookbook and her father's checkbook.
MOTHER' A flower of our Life's garden, which we don't wanna let it withers ever.
A mother is an unrelenting source of love.
I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?
All suspects should be given the chance to telephone their lawyers or their mothers, and it would not be surprising if they chose to call their mothers. After all, your mother is fall more likely to b...
When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.
Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had...
And her laugh was enough to make you want to kick over what you were doing and follow her down the street.
Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't...
I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?
My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.