Health Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing,…

— Jane Hersey

“Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“I had spent the last two weeks consumed with my mother’s condition, at her side for many hours every day, living in a soup…

— Jane Gross

“Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.”

— Attica Locke

“She had eloped in a trance, in haste, her docility a mask, a thousand hers revolting within herself and toward him. Yet coexisting with…

— Edna O'Brien

“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe,…

— Kelly Corrigan

“My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential. Two things were important to her and…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

— Erin Bowman

“The only trouble at first was that one small, cold-sober part of her mind floated free of the rest of her; it was able…

— Richard Yates

“That was during the time of her lost happiness, when his love had built round her a protective wall, which for a brief period…

— Anna Kavan

“What happened was pain and pleasure and shock and satisfaction all rolled into one. Pain as he withdrew and thrust over and over again…

— Mary Balogh