Wisdom Quote by Dorothea Benton Frank

“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety, but also…

— Matt Bellassai

“The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation,…

— David Bergen

“Few things feel as threatening to a mother as does something that jeopardizes others' love for and acceptance of her child.”

— Amy Fenton Lee

“Each one of us has hated his or her parents at some point in early life … how quickly we turn around our feelings…

— Sandeep Sahajpal

“I am afraid that my children won't think of me as anyone but their mother.”

— Molly D. Campbell

“A mother knows her children’s weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.”

— Mary Campisi

“Many patients grew up feeling their perceptions of their parents were forbidden and dangerous. They have learned to discount their own often discerning observations…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“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

“As children, we are profoundly loyal to our parents, and to their pain: I wanted to be related to my mom, not ruined by…

— Heather Sellers

“There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.”

— Stephanie Bishop

“When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.”

— Gillian Flynn