Parenting Quote by Deb Caletti

“I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time…

— Kaimana Wolff

“Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a…

— Ami McKay

“I couldn’t bear to think of my mother loving me but unable to face me, to stare into my eyes, to care for me…

— Heather Sellers

“Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any…

— Karen Abbott

“This, I finally realized, was how Mom was able to focus when I was not. It was how she was able to be present…

— Will Schwalbe

“She was finally beginning to understand what her mother had meant––how opening up can make you vulnerable.”

— Erin Bowman

“Well--" My mother paused, and her tone was reflective in that way that is inevitably sad, because the past is sad. "What I remember,"…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“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

“I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.”

— Anne Frank

“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.…

— Vivian Gornick

“On this particular day, there was a woman in line right in front of us. She was in her thirties, smartly but not expensively…

— Will Schwalbe

“Sometimes being a mother makes you blind. You think you know what's best and refuse to see any other way.”

— Tracy Holczer