Mother Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

“That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“When push comes to shove, a mother takes care of her children from the bottom up.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

— Barbara Kingsolver

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense…

— Barbara Kingsolver

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Dellarobia noted they were not a perfect physical match: Nelda plump and rosy-cheeked, her mother fine-boned. The resemblance blazed in their wide…

— Barbara Kingsolver

He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Until that morning when we all went to the riverbank, I still believed Mother would take Leah, not me. Leah who, even…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.”

— Barbara Kingsolver