Ability Quote by Betty Friedan

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and…

— Doris Lessing

My mother was very hard on me when I was a child. I think she was raising me how the world was treating her.

— Erika Jayne

I couldn't understand her [my mother's] wiring, all the time. I couldn't understand how she denied herself pleasure and enjoyment in life. As my…

— Dan Fogelman

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

— James T. Farrell

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to…

— Natalie Merchant

My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.

— Sandra Cisneros

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing…

— Amy Tan

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

— Tyler Perry

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

— Georg Brandes

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

— Ann Brashares

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.

— Nishan Panwar

I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No…

— Sarah Dessen