Love Quote by Aimee Bender

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a…

— Ashlee Willis

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was…

— Paula Hawkins

“Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a…

— Ami McKay

“She wasn't the perfect mom. However, she was the perfect Mother for me.”

— Raymond D. Longoria Jr

“From diapers on, I felt like there was something not good about me, but it was invisible to everybody but my mother. And whenever…

— Jerry Stahl

“This girl and this baby were my world, and the only things I needed out of life. I just hoped I could somehow make…

— Kirsty Moseley

“I went into motherhood with some pretty romantic notions about what being a mom would be like. I certainly thought that raising kids would…

— Debra Sansing Woods

“Mom's smiles were the most beautiful thing in the world, and they almost always made things better. They almost even made an early bedtime…

— Thea Harrison

“Over time, we would learn each other and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.”

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh