Bernard-cornwell Quote by Bernard Cornwell

“My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“His mother never gave up on him, even when he lashed out at her, took her money, and failed her in so many ways.…

— Ron Franscell

“It appeared possible that these other men were good fathers only because they knew too little of the world to grow frenzied against it.”

— Rebecca West

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

— Bauvard

“In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.”

— Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

“If daughters couldn't soften a man, then nothing would.”

— Linda Weaver Clarke

“Maybe there were no villains in my mother’s story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And…

— John Boyne

“I am not alone in this. I only let him do to me what men have ever done to women: march off to empty…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal…

— A. H. Septimius

“…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt…

— Paul Auster