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Mother Quotes by Ayelet Waldman
- The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and…
- When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped the baby from…
- Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the…
- By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego…
- Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay…
- I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know…
- Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But…
- You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's…
- A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto…
- I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I…
- I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short…
- If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am…
- One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing…
- I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my…
- By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth…
- I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of…
- I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother…
More Mother Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures… — Benjamin Carson
- Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr
- I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a… — Maya Angelou
- Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that… — Cassandra Clare
- My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20,… — Barack Obama