--- title: "9 Mother Figure Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Mother Figure quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Mother Figure sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e96/rainbow-rowell-135_mother_this-is-so-obviously-about-me-needing-a_2346943.jpg" --- > [“This is so obviously about me needing a mother figure, she thought, disgusted with herself. I wonder if I’m going to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainbow-rowell/this-is-so-obviously-about-me-needing-a-mother-figure-she-thought/) [Rainbow Rowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainbow-rowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e96/rainbow-rowell-135_mother_this-is-so-obviously-about-me-needing-a_2346943.jpg) > [Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/unfortunately-in-self-discovery-you-get-the-culty-types-who-want-the/) [Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b04/frederick-lenz-8_buddhism_unfortunately-in-self-discovery-you-get_1393265.jpg) > [Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-denis/marguerite-duras-was-a-very-good-friend-of-mine-and-an-intellectual/) [Claire Denis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-denis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1c/claire-denis-8648_friendship_marguerite-duras-was-a-very-good-friend_2663328.jpg) > [My Aunt Lori is my mother's sister and has always been a mother figure to me. She is smart, driven, successful, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenya-moore/my-aunt-lori-is-my-mother-s-sister-and-has-always-been-a-mother/) [Kenya Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenya-moore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/kenya-moore-4944_always_my-aunt-lori-is-my-mother-s-sister-and-h_2450408.png) > [I know who Cristiano Ronaldo is and he's a gorgeous looking guy. It would be an obscenity for him even to look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lady-colin-campbell/i-know-who-cristiano-ronaldo-is-and-he-s-a-gorgeous-looking-guy-it/) [Lady Colin Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lady-colin-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/836/lady-colin-campbell-8569_anything_i-know-who-cristiano-ronaldo-is-and-he-s_155450.jpg) > [Although people have different perceptions, I personally define myself as a mother. My life has been revolving around children since a young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reham-khan/although-people-have-different-perceptions-i-personally-define-myself/) [Reham Khan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reham-khan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ab/reham-khan-11548_age_although-people-have-different-perceptio_2767951.jpg) > [Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penelope-cruz/pedro-almod-var-asked-me-to-watch-italian-films-again-as-homework-to/) [Penelope Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penelope-cruz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/132/penelope-cruz-2508_character_pedro-almod-var-asked-me-to-watch-italia_1231769.jpg) > [Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aravind-adiga/indira-gandhi-had-been-this-very-powerful-dominating-ambiguous-mother/) [Aravind Adiga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aravind-adiga/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ff/aravind-adiga-4424_ambiguous_indira-gandhi-had-been-this-very-powerfu_1149287.jpg) > [“Another study that winds up in half the textbooks makes the same point, if more subtly. The subjects of the “experiment” were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-sapolsky/another-study-that-winds-up-in-half-the-textbooks-makes-the-same/) [Robert M. Sapolsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-sapolsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bd/robert-m-sapolsky-1166_education_another-study-that-winds-up-in-half-the_804331.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/mother-figure/#itemlist", "name": "Mother Figure Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“This is so obviously about me needing a mother figure, she thought, disgusted with herself. 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