Abuse Quote by D. Morgenstern

“Oh, to be the spitting image of her father, or a younger version of her mother. She longed to carry those pieces of them,…

— Molly Collier

“But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have…

— George MacDonald

“I felt no honor and no beauty, even though I was a queen. There were the frivolities, the attendant charms and the decorations of…

— Sakoon Singh

“Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance. It had…

— Cheryl Strayed

“She had no existence, in herself. From earliest childhood she had believed this. Rather she was a reflecting surface, reflecting others' perception of her,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.”

— Zane Grey

“It was all so artificial. It was beautiful, but it did not belong to her. She was a tourist, an outsider, and she could…

— Penni Russon

“There was something almost sacred in the self-sacrifice that I felt was required of me as a mother, caring for this child.”

— Judith Warner

“Her son would be incomparably handsome, good and powerful. He would be the expected Messiah; it is fortunate for humanity that all mothers have…

— Émile Zola

“Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life.”

— Lorraine Heath

“The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had…

— Charles Dickens

“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who saved himself…

— Cherise Wolas