“Mothers show their daughters how to become strong, fathers make them” — Rafia Shujaat Copy Share Image
“I got almost eighteen years with you. The best eighteen years of my life.” — Kristen Simmons Copy Share Image
“Only mothers can’t say they don’t want their children and just go away.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Unbelievable! You are unbelievable! First you ruin my life and then you blame it on my period!” — Jane Aire Copy Share Image
“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Jeopardy, Mom! You have got to get on Jeopardy! Seriously! You could marry Alex Trebek! You could be Alex and Alex Trebek!… — Diane L. Randle Copy Share Image
“Mothers! They promise you they'll never get married again, and next thing you know you're a bridesmaid.” — Mindy Schanback Copy Share Image
“...you are my rainbow to keep. My eyes will always be watching you; never will I lose sight of you.” — Vesna M. Bailey Copy Share Image
“Mama once told me before she died that my blonde hair makes the sun go wild with envy.” — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
“Mothers are ineffable, their prayers the driving force beneath our wings; their discipline, the magnet for honor—irreplaceable love!” — Henrietta Newton Martin, Author- The Greatest of All Romances, Your Potters Call Copy Share Image
“Some women pray for their daughters to marry good husbands. I pray that my girls will find girlfriends half as loyal and… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
“Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.” — Marjorie Watts Copy Share Image
“I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
“Am I alone in this mother-food connection or does being with your mom trigger the sudden and voracious need for large amounts… — April Paine Copy Share Image
“Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
“By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you… — Danielle Crittenden Copy Share Image
“Another reason it's dangerous to acknowledge that you were unloved is that it implies the possibility that your mother may have been… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
“I am a wall. I am a wall. I am a wall. I am a giant and I tower above you. I… — Tania De Rozario Copy Share Image
Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“I thought everything I knew about you might have been a lie, but since meeting him and your parents, I've realized that… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
“The word 'slut' (in patois) was repeated over and over, until suddenly I felt as if I were drowning in a well… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“My mother did not want to go to America: this much I knew. I knew it by the way she became distracted… — Catherine Chung Copy Share Image
“If your mother lived your life as though it were her own-never allowing you a moment of stress or frustration, routinely sleeping… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Suddenly life was good, even glamorous. We were poor but didn’t know it, or maybe we did know, but we didn’t care,… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The Dieter's Daughter Mom's got this taco guy's poem taped to the fridge, some ode to celery, which she is always eating.… — Anita Endrezze Copy Share Image
“When I was five and Sarah seven, my mother went on a trip. She was gone from our home in Rochester, New… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
“ MY MOTHER GETS DRESSED It is impossible for my mother to do even the simplest things for herself anymore so we… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“One morning as I was leaving, the director said I didn't have to leave the set anymore. What happened? Why did they… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“As a mother I see the future in the present. Every little thing she does or says makes me form a hypothesis… — Kimberley Alecia Smith Copy Share Image
“I usually enjoy setting up a new kitchen, but this has become a joyless and highly charged task. My mother and I… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
“Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become… — Peggy Toney Horton Copy Share Image
“Oh, he's a sweet thing and I love him so--and I love life--and everything's beautiful!” — Cornelia Spelman Copy Share Image
“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.” — K.X. Song Copy Share Image
