Biology Quote by Celeste Ng

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was…

— Paula Hawkins

“...after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.…

— Aimee Bender

“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.”

— Leslie Gilbert-Lurie

“Parenthood wasn’t about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own needs for…

— Lisa Unger

“It was crazy. Why can a mother look into the eyes of her child for the first time and feel insta-love, but that same…

— Alice Ward

“Being a mother was the best of all human experiences, and also the most excruciating.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

“By the time I rose and started walking again, I didn’t begrudge my mother a thing. The truth was, in spite of all that,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than…

— Caroline Moorehead

“Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies.”

— Mona Simpson

“Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.”

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She knows what I want. She…

— Ally Condie