Parenting Quote by Louise Millar

“Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the yarn twisted…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Well, my sister, have some courage and heed your dreams, not your mother’s demands or what the gossips may say or expect you to…

— Linda Lafferty

“You understand. I don't know. I am not sure how I would feel in your shoes. My mother wanted me.”

— Donna K. Childree

“I wonder if I wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you'.…

— Lionel Shriver

“I heard a voice in my head. It said: I would rather be alone than ever be my mother. I will leave before I…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Mother (fragment) ...You asked me if I would be sad when it happened and I am sad. But the iris I moved from your…

— Ted Kooser

“I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift…

— Jodi Picoult

“She was the sort of parent you would want to have living close by, but only on the grounds that she would then never…

— Jasper Fforde

“Sometimes I think there's only one mother in the world, and we all got a piece of her.”

— Barbara Froman

“she was at times most able to enjoy her family members when she could sense their presence nearby without actually interacting with them.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld, Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice

“Her mother came into the room and sat on the edge of the bed. “Sometimes life doesn’t turn out the way we think it…

— Ruth Ann Nordin

“I asked my mother when we first met, but she evaded the answer like she does everything else.”

— Candace Knoebel