Parenting Quote by Lionel Shriver

“Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.”

— Margaret Atwood

“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

“Carefully, the girl skimmed her fingers across her mother's knee. It was smooth; the skin had closed across the tiny wounds like the surface…

— Ursula Hegi

“I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet…

— Haruki Murakami

“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships…pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“During the day she carried her boy, bandaged and fed the wounded, leaving her own festering wounds until night-time when she licked them and…

— Paullina Simons

“But her tears wouldn't come. And right now, more than anything, she wanted to bellow her rage like an irate newborn forced to leave…

— Kate Breslin

“She remebered the angry hurt she had felt because his mother had abandoned him as a young boy,and she cried even harder.His mother should…

— Judith McNaught

“She saw her sitting with her son in the window and the cloud moving and the tree bending, how life, from being made up…

— Virginia Woolf

“They made her think of her grandmere, who had lost her husband and two of her sons in the war. She had cried every…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“So they clutched at her like shipwrecked sailors, clinging to the rocks despite the fact that they are being battered to death against them.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Burning coals, making perfect shaped round rotis, massaging her husband’s back, carrying pots of water across miles would not be her fate. But she…

— Tina Sequeira