Female Quote by Anne Sexton

“It’s so dark that I can hear the sea better than I can see it. Shhhhh, Shhhhh, it says, like I’m a fretful child…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“That sea - that mother of a million summers, Who bore, with melody, a million springs, Shall sing for my enchantment...”

— Stella Benson

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

— May Sarton

“In the moment between my mother's death and her Return, I stop believing in God.”

— Carrie Ryan

“Maman’s death: perhaps it is the one thing in my life that I have not responded to neurotically. My grief has not been hysterical,…

— Roland Barthes

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

— Madonna Ciccone

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

— Meghan O'Rourke

“Everything about her shredded my heart because she reminded me too much of my mother, and she reminded me too much of my mother's…

— Jessica Park

“My mother’s death was the volcano and I was the ash. It exploded in a mash of pain, blood and tears but eventually settled…

— Angela L. Hansen

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I love my mother to death. I'm pretty much a reflection of her.

— Stone Cold Steve Austin

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been… It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

— Nancy Hale

“Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this…

— Valerie Martin

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out,…

— Guru Nanak