Children Quote by Amy Fenton Lee

“There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.”

— Stephanie Bishop

“She couldn’t imagine a father hurting his child. Or a mother failing to protect her child.”

— Ellen Marie Wiseman

“The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation,…

— David Bergen

“…how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her…

— Kate Atkinson

“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

“To be a mother is to live in fear. Fear of death, of sickness, of loss, of accidents, of strangers, of the Black Man,…

— Joanne Harris

“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety, but also…

— Matt Bellassai

“As children, we are profoundly loyal to our parents, and to their pain: I wanted to be related to my mom, not ruined by…

— Heather Sellers

“When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.”

— Gillian Flynn

“Blessings and worry, happiness and fear – this is a mother’s love.”

— Lisa See

“Don’t trouble yourself with the woes of life, for they will only prevent you from giving all of yourself to others. A child needs…

— Dannika Dark