“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
“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
“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
“After a long while, the giant forest turned into a clearing. Up ahead, a large waterfall rushed into a giant pool. Rippling… — Valerie Dunsmore 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
“...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
“Oh here's a nice one, he brown recluse spider. This once resides in wooded areas. In other words, next to my head… — Yvonne Prinz Copy Share Image
“["]Bon just couldn't do anything right in her mother's eyes. And when it came to Mrs. D. wanting her to work at… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i went out… — Maya Angelou 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
“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
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
“Mother (fragment) ...You asked me if I would be sad when it happened and I am sad. But the iris I moved… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“But I wanted to cook. I needed to cook. Mom had raised me with the implicit understanding that cooking is the answer… — Sasha Martin 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
“My mother may no longer be (if she ever was) a mast to which I can rope myself. But I fear the… — Trevor Cole Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that if God felt it best to delay marriage into the latter part of your twenties, He would… — Vicki Courtney 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
“I got almost eighteen years with you. The best eighteen years of my life.” — Kristen Simmons Copy Share Image
“Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me." "Pilar doesn't… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
“Are they happy at all, ever?" "No", my mother says. "I don't know if they'll survive this." "That's terrible," I say. "It's… — Jami Attenberg 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
“There is not enough air in the room for Marianne and Elizabeth to share. They have learned this the hard way, but… — Jessica Shattuck 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
