I thought of her as my mother, but rarely of myself as her…

In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a…

— Rodney Crowell

My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale…

— Wesley Morris

The Saudi ideal of a woman is a religious mother who rarely ventures out: She shouldn't work with men, she should be completely covered,…

— Manal al-Sharif

“Suddenly she understood that it is a very hard thing, to be afraid of things, and that it takes up so much time. Suddenly…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Sometimes the thought of his mother working so hard while he did nothing would come suddenly upon his and he would rush off and…

— E. Nesbitt

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to…

— Maya Angelou

“I thought about my mother, and the words she said to me almost a lifetime ago. That’s when it clicked: she had asked me…

— Jamie McGuire

Wonderful, Annabeth thought. Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station. And, of all…

— Rick Riordan

“No, since we began this case, another possibility has presented itself to me--the thought that, although my mother cared for her children, their welfare…

— Caleb Carr

At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth…

— Cassandra Clare

“Anyone watching her would have thought her cold, indifferent, but this was the only way she knew to tackle her deepest troubles, to shoo…

— Laura L. Sullivan

“She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends. When a man…

— Holly Black

“A rock, I thought crazily. He'll pick up a rock. He'll break open my skull, my brain leaking onto the sand. He'll tighten his…

— Emma Cline

the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.

— Cecily von Ziegesar

Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an…

— Rose Kennedy