Psychology Quote by Jodi Picoult

“It's a strange thing being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course.”

— Jodi Picoult

“It is a strange thing, being suddenly motherless. It’s like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid…

— Jodi Picoult

“But there is one cool thing about having a weirdo mother. She works so hard at remembering where she left herself she doesn’t have…

— Linda Vigen Phillips

“It is a strange thing, being suddenly motherless. It’s like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course, one that I never paid…

— Jodi Picoult

“It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She was monolithic…

— Cheryl Strayed

“It was one thing to be giving up on myself, but moms were supposed to believe in you to the very end.”

— Erin Jade Lange

“Gaining a mom, even one who had waited fifty-odd years to reveal herself... that wasn't something to throw away lightly.”

— Rick Riordan

“I heard a voice in my head. It said: I would rather be alone than ever be my mother. I will leave before I…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.”

— K.X. Song

“My mother's perpetual now, tempting me with possibility. Weren't we silly, she might say? What was the matter with us? Let's be close again.…

— Susanna Sonnenberg

“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 suspected (and still do) that I would love being a mother...”

— Kate Bolick