Mother Quote by Kate Bolick Download Open image ““But the knowing was visceral: if I became a mother, I’d lose myself.”” — Kate Bolick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mother Parenting
“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 Copy Share Image
“Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.” — Attica Locke Copy Share Image
“I had to learn how to be a mother before I realized how lucky I am to be a child.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Like she’s realized, really realized, she’s failed as a mother. I instantly regret being the one to bring the realization to the surface again.” — Inglath Cooper Copy Share Image
“It stung, the notion that my child belonged more to her mother than to me, but I learned to accept it.” — Shulem Deen Copy Share Image
“Gaining a mom, even one who had waited fifty-odd years to reveal herself... that wasn't something to throw away lightly.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.” — K.X. Song Copy Share Image
“Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you.” — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.” — Brooke Hauser Copy Share Image
“It's a strange thing being suddenly motherless. It's like losing a rudder that was keeping me on course.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want anyone to… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
“Our conversations had a limitless quality that I loved. It was a relief to embark on a simple friendship with a man, free to… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
“Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.” — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
“One of the more unpleasant aspects of living in New York City is how daily proximity to wealth and glamour can instill a desire… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
“When you find yourself at yet another crossroads, sorting out your best next step, it’s as useful to know what you don’t want as… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
“Married women, especially those with children, tended to assume a superior stance, as if their insights into people and relationships came preapproved, even though… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
“I was most alive when alone, negotiating odd encounters on the subway, surging along the sidewalk with a million faceless others. It was an… — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
“I said to myself, the only place this horrific jealousy exists is inside of you. If you stop feeling it, it will disappear.” — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
“Each of us is a museum that opens for business the moment we’re born, with memory the sole curator.” — Kate Bolick Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
