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Mother Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.
- My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
- That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
- My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a…
- (24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
- Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point…
- When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest…
- My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward.…
- I thought of all the magazine article I'd read on mothers who worked and constantly felt guilty about leaving their children with someone else. I…
- But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother than I ever…
- Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who…
- A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.
- Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were…
- There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have…
- Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.
- Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing…
- Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you…
- Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.
- Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.
- Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
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
- 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
- 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
- My mother was the one constant in my life. When I think about my mom raising me alone when she was 20,… — Barack Obama