Children Quote by Barbara Delinsky

Tombstones don't talk back.

— Leland Chapman

Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that…

— Mira Bartok

“So often we're told that women's stories are unimportant. After all, what does it matter what happens in the main room, in the kitchen,…

— Lisa See

My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked…

— Marya Hornbacher

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother's illness. She had Parkinson's disease, which was…

— Alice Munro

“So often, we're told that women's stories are unimportant. After all, what does it matter what happens in the main room, in the kitchen,…

— Lisa See

“And then to win the prize had been incredible. She felt like she was being seen, actually being seen, for the first time in…

— Nicole Trope

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

— Meredith Vieira

“A reality which appears to me as my wife must appear to my son as his mother, and never as his wife. But the…

— Kaiten Nukariya

I'm used to having strong women around me. My mother was. My wife is. I like their strong mentality.

— Sol Campbell

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you…

— Candice Olson

I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.

— Annette Bening

I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end…

— Gary Sheffield

I am very domesticated. Some of my favorite things in life are being a mother and a wife. That's where I get the most…

— Sable