Life Quote by Justina Chen

“Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.”

— China Miéville

“My mother has always been the sort of woman whose emotional state can be intuited from the volume at which she rattles kitchen utensils.”

— Richard Russo

“Life at home was falling apart around me. Every time I turned around I’d done something to make my mother cry.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“My mother's capacity for happiness was a small soup bone salting a large pot.”

— Lorrie Moore

“Mom could have shared her suffering with her children, but she didn't. She could have succumbed to a world of pain and sorrow, but…

— Ron Mayes

“Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any…

— Karen Abbott

“Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.”

— Attica Locke

“She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings,…

— A.B. Shepherd

“I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time…

— Kaimana Wolff

“They ate at the table like grown-ups. They never cried. They never complained. They never left their chopsticks standing upright in their rice. They…

— Julie Otsuka

“Mothers give us life, love, and the heartfelt inclination to cry 'I want my mommy' no matter how old we get.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“My mother sighed, making me feel that I was placing an intolerable burden on her, and yet making me resent having to feel this…

— Margaret Laurence