Children Quote by Harriet Jacobs

“But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“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

“But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have…

— George MacDonald

Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of…

— Angela Carter

“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than…

— Caroline Moorehead

“Once there was a girl who was drawn to wicked things. Things like forbidden, ancient stories. It didn’t matter that the old stories killed…

— Kristen Ciccarelli

“But for reasons she would never be able to articulate to anyone, herself included, she took a few steps more into the despairing darkness…

— Casey Fisher

“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.”

— K.X. Song

“She is softhearted yet strong willed. She is compassionate yet unwavering in principle. She is a loving mother, yet she risked my life to…

— J.L. Witterick

“Yet her father had taught her that failing to act in the face of human suffering is inhuman.”

— Corban Addison

“There is also another mother….You walk upon her body. Her breasts grow your food. Her spirit is Nature. If you listen, you can hear…

— Louise M. Wisechild

“Sometimes she despaired at other women - their feebleness, their triviality, the nonsense they absorbed. So many were like little doe-eyed deer waiting to…

— Dave Franklin