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Mother Quotes by Anna Quindlen
- Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
- When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of…
- Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently…
- Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they…
- Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall…
- If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes.…
- I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible…
- [After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I…
- When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not…
- When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of…
More Mother Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman