Children Quote by Jodi Picoult

“It stung, the notion that my child belonged more to her mother than to me, but I learned to accept it.”

— Shulem Deen

“It struck me as funny that she was on the other side of the world having the exact same realization as I was: that…

— Caitlyn Duffy

“It seems to me a wrong and bitter thing to do, to bring a child into this world.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“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

“a mother, don’t you want your children to be better than you are?”

— E.N. Joy

“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

“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

“A child will always be what he is, she thought, and not what you want him to be.”

— Ken Follett

“...and she thought she understood, for the first time, the strange and terrible power a parent has over a child's happiness, and also how…

— Meg Mitchell Moore

“No, she reminded herself, her childhood hadn't defined her, or had anything to do with the real reason..”

— Nicholas Sparks

“Exactly what was wrong with her? And could she pass it on to any children she may have?”

— Shelly Laurenston

“Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.”

— Margaret Dilloway