Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't…

Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make…

— Jodi Picoult

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just…

— Laetitia Casta

“I wondered if Kate would harden as my mother had when she was young and her own mother died. Some people exist quite well…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was…

— Anna Quindlen

“When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting…

— Rebecca Solnit

“As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she…

— Anna Quindlen

“I dreamed that I woke up and there was a little girl, not more than three or four years old, standing outside my window…

— Darrell Hammond

“We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's…

— Jodi Picoult

One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself…

— Lights

Named after my mother.

— Bonnie Raitt

Being a new mother is a blessing.

— Phaedra Parks

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

— Joanne Harris

My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time.

— Michael Spence

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw…

— Elizabeth Taylor