Beauty Quote by George MacDonald

“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who saved himself…

— Cherise Wolas

“My mother always pouted that it was actually her paintings and not her charm, her beauty or her sass that made him fall in…

— Tammara Webber

“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although…

— Winston Graham

“The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what…

— Hilary Mantel

“Her death had obliterated that. It had obliterated me. It had cut me short at the very height of my youthful arrogance. It had…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Once giving way to tears, she wept bitterly for all that she had lost, and all that she must lose so soon. Her mother…

— Willa Cather

“She must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.”

— Carrie Ryan

“Yes, it was the love of woman that was the danger, the obstacle on which her dearest wish might founder. How it grieves mothers…

— Georges Rodenbach

“By the time I rose and started walking again, I didn’t begrudge my mother a thing. The truth was, in spite of all that,…

— Cheryl Strayed

“When my mother died and left me all alone, I began to realize that some things, like being loved, were more important than one's…

— J. Matthew Nespoli

“Whether thus adorned she would have been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her prosperity, may be imagined from the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“She did not replace my mother; no one could do that; but she came into a vacancy in my heart, which closed upon her,…

— Charles Dickens