Mother Quote by Alison Bechdel

“I was thinking that if it really was my fault, if every reaction could be traced to an action before, then at the very…

— Shirley Marr

“I have no doubt that my mother's pregnancy with me was an accident. Mostly because on several occasions, she told me I was an…

— Chelsea Handler

“The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.”

— Brooke Hauser

“There was something she should have experienced, something besides this. There was a path somewhere that she could not find. It was and it…

— Cora Sandel

“It was my fault, she sobbed, and it was true, no one could deny it, but it is also true, if this brings her…

— José Saramago

“there was nothing I could have done to stop what happened. And that maybe it wasn’t all my fault.”

— Penelope Ward

“It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She was monolithic…

— Cheryl Strayed

“You can blame your mother, and she can blame hers. Leastways sooner or later it's the fault of somebody who's dead.”

— Lionel Shriver

“It is not. Mom loves me, and she would not leave me without any explanation." And then her father began to cry.”

— Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

“It wasn’t her fault,”

— Rachel Caine

“I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.”

— Anne Frank

“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