Children Quote by Jennifer Handford

“That was the hurtful part of motherhood, not being able to fix what you couldn’t understand.”

— Stephen King

“...it was hard to be a mother when you had never been mothered yourself. Your children's needs remind you of your needs. Their pain…

— Sarah Dunn

“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

“Losing a parent was difficult; when her father had died, she had thought she’d never get over it. The pain had been like a…

— Victoria Jenkins

“Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our…

— Andrew Solomon

“Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity to heal.”

— A Course in Miracles

“Some wounds went so deep you spent a lifetime trying to recover from them.”

— Noelle Adams

“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

“So you know what it’s like to be hurt and go through something hard, and kids need moms and dads to help them when…

— Johan Twiss

“But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who…

— Gregg Olsen

“I believe we all heal differently, it is a process, and many like me are here to help you as you heal, as you…

— Patricia Dsouza

“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