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Mother Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
- ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst…
- This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because…
- Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and…
- The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother…
- I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless…
- Mother of otherness, Eat me.
- I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English…
- Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me…
- My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
- That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
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