Guessing Quote by Linda Hogan

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

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

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

When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was…

— John Dickerson

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

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 was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a…

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult…

— Dani Shapiro

As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I…

— Lionel Shriver

I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent…

— John Rzeznik

My mom was so good at hiding the bad in life that I thought all of life was good.

— Kane Brown