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“She felt indispensable and made no apologies. She allowed herself to accept her importance and this is something many of us mothers refuse to…

— Meg Meeker

“Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance. It had…

— Cheryl Strayed

“It has taken me twenty-eight years to be able to admit that I'm glad I did not know my mother until now. Not because,…

— Jodi Picoult

“Time had stopped, or so it seemed. Every day was like the one before it, with little of note or consequence. Each night Persephone…

— Sasha Summers

“She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.”

— Jane Austen

“She raised trembling fingers to his mouth. “Is this what you would have had me forgive? The thing you hadn’t yet done?” “No.” His…

— Kati Wilde

“During my sorrowful outburst, my mother had remained entirely impassive. But then why not? Was she not mad? Nay, she was not. She had…

— Geoff Cooper

“It was my time to assume ascendency. My powers were in-play and in force. I told him to forbear question or remark; I desired…

— Charlotte Brontë

I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that…

— Terry Pratchett

“I mean only respect when I say that your mother has always struck me as someone with whom the Lord might have chosen to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“My speech impediment had been absent for some time now—four months and six days. I’d almost imagined myself cured. So when Mother swept into…

— Sue Monk Kidd