Failure Quote by Isabel Allende

“...tried to be faultless as a parent, but still she worries that in the end, all her love for her daughter will not compensate…

— Shilpi Somaya Gowda

“She didn’t think of the debt she was repaying, that each of the babies she brought into the world might someday be counted against…

— Tahmima Anam

“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

“The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“It wasn’t her fault, but it was her fate, like so many single mothers, to be caught between a wistful child and his fantasies…

— Eric Ripert

“She knew there was enormous penalty for what they had done to her - but she could not conceive of that, did not require…

— John Hawkes

“Her mother could sail impervious through reversals and snubs that would have sunk another woman. But she was defenseless against her own thoughts”

— Carey Wallace

“If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.”

— Milan Kundera

“But a woman was liable to put her child before everything else, in the end [...]”

— Ken Follett

“She felt really quite unequal to the tedious process of reconciliation which, in view of the fact that she was sorry, seemed to her…

— Mary McCarthy

“She was guilty, after all, of success, a success that stemmed from birthright and privilege. She took hope for granted, saw opportunity as her…

— Dennis Lehane

“They were soldiers of the sea, born and bred to battle her, taking her bounty along the way. Some succeeded and lived, others failed…

— Amber Lynn Natusch