Family Quote by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“She cannot remember her mother's face... This is the woman who brought her into the world... This is the woman her father loved. Yet…

— Mark Haddon

“For the ones who come after you, it will be easier. They will accept their duties with willing hearts. She did not say: Because…

— Margaret Atwood

“She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.”

— Carrie Ryan

“If we wanted to think about it,’ wrote Proust, ‘perhaps there is no really loving mother who could not, on her dying day, and…

— Alain de Botton

“To feel that you aren’t important to your mother leaves a hole. Most often it is felt as a hole in the heart. It’s…

— Jasmin Lee Cori

“As family therapist Peggy Papp reminds us, the quality of a mother’s life and her courage are among her most important legacies to her…

— Dena Cabrera

“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

“...now that I am a mother, I understand what Mother's Day is about: it's about looking through our lives and recognizing the act of…

— Shauna Niequist

“When the child must be weaned, the mother too is not without sorrow at the thought that she and the child are separated more…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Watching and learning from Mama and the other women in my family gave me a deep love for home and hearth and taking care…

— Sophie Hudson

Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support,…

— Barack Obama

“Even in the midst of all this commotion she knows none of it really belongs to her, and marvels at the strange fact of…

— Brady Udall