Children Quote by Alice Sebold

“I'm not sure who has the greater fear, mothers or daughters, that daughters will, in fact, become their mothers.”

— Brooklyn James

“But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who…

— Gregg Olsen

“When you’re a mom, you learn about fear. You’re always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather. There is nothing…

— Kristin Hannah

“I am afraid that my children won't think of me as anyone but their mother.”

— Molly D. Campbell

“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.…

— Vivian Gornick

“Being a mother was the best of all human experiences, and also the most excruciating.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

“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

“not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Motherhood for her had always been a conflict between proper concern and far too much worry.”

— Stuart Nadler

“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than…

— Caroline Moorehead

“There are lots of things sons shouldn’t imagine about their mothers, above all what it was like to become one.”

— Bauvard

“My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.”

— Mavis Gallant