Writing Quote by Joan Schenkar

Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company,…

— Anna Godbersen

Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops,…

— Thomas Hardy

My mom was a best-selling author.

— Noah Kahan

“she was one cocktail away from proving his mother right”

— Anne Taintor

“Patricia listened, deliberate and self-contained. Under the subtle terms of the meta-meeting, the pursing of her white lips was almost ostentatious. She placed her…

— Matthew De Abaitua

Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.

— Kelly Corrigan

“Della had recently remarried and promised my mother that she and her new husband”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

— Judith Viorst

“Our fortunes have gone up and down over the years, but my mother has never lost her ruthless poise. Whether she's in a cheap…

— Teri Brown

She [my mother] struggled, abusing alcohol for quite some time, and so we just kind of drifted apart. I went to college. But I…

— Hope Solo

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

— Ann Brashares