Broke Quote by Ethel Waters

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

— James T. Farrell

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the…

— Anonymous

She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost.…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“That was the hurtful part of motherhood, not being able to fix what you couldn’t understand.”

— Stephen King

The most overwhelming factor was becoming a mother. The entire perspective of life changes overnight.

— Koel Mallick

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized…

— Abraham Verghese

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I…

— Susan Smith

Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear.…

— John Green

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend…

— Jodi Picoult

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

— Gillian Flynn

“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

“As though their daughters loving men and women meant they wanted all of them in the world. There was no way to tell their…

— Anna-Marie McLemore