Quote by 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

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

— K.X. Song

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

— Erin Jade Lange

“But the knowing was visceral: if I became a mother, I’d lose myself.”

— Kate Bolick

“Funny how being a grown-up didn’t make you any less glad to have a mom on the scene. Whether it was your own or…

— Dani Harper

“For once, I hold onto her craziness for strength. Sometimes , I just have to let go and let me inner Mom out.”

— Susan Ee

“My mother scared herself with her own queerness, and from that moment on I ceased to be her companion.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

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

— Kate Bolick

“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

“...moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.”

— Susan Squire