Stepmother Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One… — Martin Amis
The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife. — Euripides
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. — John Dewey
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my… — Arabella Weir
Better a serpent than a stepmother! — Euripides
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! — Elizabeth Gaskell
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind;… — Victor Hugo
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother. — Hesiod
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my… — Zach Braff
As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather,… — Brian J. White
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world… — Honore de Balzac
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the… — Desiderius Erasmus
Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a… — Jeanette Winterson
Return with your shield, or upon it.â€™ (Julian's stepmother) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else… — John Connolly
...and then she glared at me, the same glare my stepmother used to give me when I gave her the Nazi salute. That woman was… — Darynda Jones
Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow.… — Franny Billingsley
I'm sorry to have to tell you this way, but your mother and I are separating." When I pressed my mouth together, he corrected, "Stepmother.… — Darynda Jones
My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write. — Natasha Trethewey

Who Wrote These Stepmother Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 28 Stepmother Quotes as follows: