Mother Quote by Inglath Cooper

“I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.”

— Anne Frank

“She missed most of all the feeling of having a mother.”

— Susan Ornbratt

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

— Attica Locke

“As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake,”

— Quentin Crisp

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“It was a moment before she replied. And in that moment, she realized that what was gone from her was the child in her,…

— Allan Folsom

“i feel bad for her - i do. a damn shame, really, that i had to have a mother. it can’t be easy having…

— David Levithan

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was…

— Paula Hawkins

“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

“Anyway it was an idea of mother's and she often used to repeat it, that you ended up getting used to everything.”

— Albert Camus

“But the knowing was visceral: if I became a mother, I’d lose myself.”

— Kate Bolick

“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