Parenting Quote by Kathy Cooperman

“I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine - inherited, along with dangly earlobes and…

— Tanya Moir

“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.”

— Neil Gaiman

“My mother had to abandon her quest, but managed to extract from the restriction itself a further delicate thought, like good poets whom the…

— Marcel Proust

“annie died the other day never was there such a lay-- whom,among her dollies,dad first("don't tell your mother")had”

— E.E. Cummings

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

— Judith Viorst

“She was a clay pot, and she’d been broken in pieces. There used to be something inside her, and now that it had spilled…

— Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

“Dizzy, chilly, and beat, Raven collapsed on her bed. She rolled over, sensing a pea under the mattress. Typical Orientation Week prank. She dug…

— Shannon Hale

“There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling in the…

— Laura Gentile

“My mother had comforted me with tales ever since I was small. Sometimes they helped me peel a problem like an onion, or gave…

— Anita Amirrezvani

“The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex…

— Alice Hoffman

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript…

— Augusten Burroughs

“she makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed... the widder [widow] eats by…

— Mark Twain