Abusive-mother Quote by Joan Frances Casey

“Motherhood makes multiple personalities look normal and necessary.”

— Nicole Johnson

“The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter’s intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able…

— Susan Shapiro Barash

“Whenever she imagined her child, grown up without interference from a judgemental world, she imagined its male and female halves as complementing each other,…

— Kathleen Winter

“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

“Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution. She had…

— Jane Austen

“I marvelled at her capabilities as a mother - naturally empathic but no pushover, funny and generous, frank about her own limitations and the…

— Camilla Gibb

“A mother is like nature, she appreciates her child’s every mood.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Mothers and women in love: both ferocious females.”

— Irène Némirovsky

“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

“It struck me that, in the nicest possible way, she didn't really have a personality. She was a mother.”

— Gail Honeyman

“Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution. She had…

— Jane Austen

“But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says “I am,” and forms the…

— Diana Gabaldon