“Fat daughters and their thin mothers have especially complicated relationships.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.” — Heather Gudenkauf Copy Share Image
“Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either." "Then you're doing it wrong.” — Rachel Hauck Copy Share Image
“We are God's chosen people. We are God's treasured possession. Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Be careful how you say your own mother’s name; How you articulate your blood.” — Nkateko Masinga 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
“Oh, he's a sweet thing and I love him so--and I love life--and everything's beautiful!” — Cornelia Spelman Copy Share Image
“But her smile is vacant. Placid. A Stepford Wife smile. The tears fall but there is nothing behind them. She’s a mannequin… — Tania De Rozario 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
“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
“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
“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
“By noon, silence arrives one last time, flowing into every space of her room. And before long, silence swallows sound and color… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
“Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer,… — Karen Fowler Copy Share Image
“I know there’s something troubling you. I’m not going to ask what it is, if you don’t want to tell me. But… — Erin Hunter 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
“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 it weren't for me, she wouldn't have to take jobs like this. She would be half a planet away, floating in… — Janet Fitch 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
“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
“They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Whosoever does not believe in the existence of a sixth sense has clearly not regarded their own mother. How it is they… — Narissa Doumani 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
“Chris ordered Greek Chicken, no butter no salt, and I decided to splurge on a hamburger. To which my mama took the… — Jane Aire 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
“MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your feet with my tears, For I know… — Suzy Kassem 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
“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
“Doing a geographic” is a term alcoholics often use for acting on the impulse to start over by moving to a new… — Katie Hafner 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“She put on some music. Drum and flute, I think. She played it soft, because it was dreadfully late, a time when… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“If it is your fault that your mother is miserable, it becomes a potentially fixable affront. Taking blame means that at least… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
“Help me, Mother,' Peggy said, and tears came to her eyes as they always did when she spoke to her, because she… — Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman 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
“And like a grieving spouse who sleeps in the shirt of a lost loved one, I thought that by cooking – handling… — Sasha Martin Copy Share Image
“It’s easier for me to make sense of it that way than it is for me to face the other way—reality. And… — Tim Cummings Copy Share Image
