Mother Quote by Gabrielle Palmer

“That's why babies cry so much. All of a sudden having a body is a lot to deal with.”

— Ron Koertge

“Babies are designed to cry when they need something and mothers are designed to respond.”

— Pamela Druckerman

“Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind.”

— Jodi Picoult

“How could she believe she could breastfeed if everyone assumed she could not?”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“The mother needs mothering too.”

— Susan Schneider

“But she's not even remotely coping inside: it takes a certain strength to cry, the confidence that one will eventually be able to staunch…

— Alain de Botton

“I’m starved for her, all the time, even now—I want every part of her, to devour her, to inhale her, but I also want…

— Michelle Hodkin

“She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.”

— R.D. Larson

“Once her tears started, she always had hard time stopping, to the extent that i wondered how she was able to hold them in…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“Babies need to breastfeed when their bodies tell them to.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Mom's crying a bit, quietly, the way she always does. She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a…

— Libba Bray

“Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.”

— L.M. Montgomery