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Mother Quotes by Anne Lamott
- All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I feel inside like…
- And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the…
- I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.
- No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and…
- Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way,…
- Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
- My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
- Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman…
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends,…
- My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me…
- Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is,…
- I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or…
- I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her…
- I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she…
- Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents…
- My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the…
- You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and…
- [Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer -- and you…
- I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.
- Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out…
- There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start…
- Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially…
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
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this… — Teresa of Avila
- There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. — Dan Aykroyd
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann