Always Quote by Koren Zailckas

“If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.”

— Terry Eagleton

I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the…

— James Anthony Froude

If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless,…

— Koren Zailckas

“When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself. Certainly no one is…

— Sharon Weil

The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom…

— Anonymous

Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months…

— Alice Miller

“She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts, and is…

— Harriet Jacobs

Moms in fiction and memoir get a bad rap.

— Kelly Corrigan

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

— Milton Sapirstein

She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly,…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

— Gertrude Atherton

What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're…

— Koren Zailckas