First place Quote by Brit Bennett

“My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential. Two things were important to her and…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Mother isn’t ashamed of anything she’s done. If she was, why would she do it?”

— N.K. Jemisin

“Why did she have to change and her mother didn't? She was still smoking, dating losers, drinking, and partying. She had totally forgotten about…

— Niki Jilvontae

“She also said she was proud of me, which is all anyone can wish to hear from his mother. The”

— Saroo Brierley

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“Drawing a deep breath, she took control of her fear. She was a commander’s child. Her father had been born in poverty and had…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“You could only truly reinvent yourself far from home. On trips to see her parents, she still feels a little stifled by all that…

— Jojo Moyes

“By the time I rose and started walking again, I didn’t begrudge my mother a thing. The truth was, in spite of all that,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways…

— Jill Churchill

“It becomes one of those defining moments in your life, when your mother does that”

— Melina Marchetta

“Honestly, of all the unnecessary things her mother had taught her in the last eighteen years, she couldn’t have found two minutes to say,…

— Kristi Ann Hunter

“She had never been to college, and I often wondered where her life would have led under different circumstances. She might have been a…

— T.J. Forrester