Complexes Quote by Kelly Carlin-McCall

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand…

— Dorothy Hamill

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more…

— Katharine Graham

Even after the age of 50 it was impossible for me to see my mother as a human being. I felt she was a…

— David Small

Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she…

— Mitch Albom

“Realizing your own mother was incapable of truly seeing you—of loving you for who you are rather than as an extension of herself—is a…

— Shari Franke

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed…

— Junot Diaz

I was brought up by a mother who was always brutally honest. She made me who I am.

— Jill Zarin

All my mother ever wanted to talk about was what she hated about my father and the times he cheated on her when he…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I couldn't carry on straight after doing 'Mother,' it was really hard. Getting my anger out was a catharsis but it was also selfish…

— Goldie

I have a very non-existent, dysfunctional relationship with my biological mother.

— Antoni Porowski

“Mentally tease apart the threads that keep you connected to your mother. See that those threads, those feelings, that you experience with her are…

— Susan Schneider