Certain Quote by John Cowper Powys

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

— Robert Bloch

I'm glad my son does not have to witness that the very people that he thought he could ride and die with wouldn't think…

— Christopher Wallace

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending…

— Claire Denis

“Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and powerful bond…

— Dan Pearce

“Consider the power of love. I remember a mother I met once as I made a professional house call. This woman was confined in…

— Russell M. Nelson

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly…

— Jodi Picoult

“I remember at that time I went to the hairdresser's. I did this regularly, but I remember that visit for two particular reasons. The…

— Anita Brookner

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more…

— Benjamin Spock

“(Query – Why do people with no children of their own seem to think the shocking behaviour of other people’s offspring a fit subject…

— D.E. Stevenson

When I had my first child, I was too embarrassed to tell a single soul that I wasn't the over-the-moon, picture-perfect new mother I…

— Stephanie Ruhle

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

— Meghan Daum