Parenting Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

“The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what…

— Hilary Mantel

“I had wondered if all mothers shared a fear of how vibrant and alive their children were.”

— Alice Sebold

“Now hear a new truth. The Great Mother Herself will be forced to hide from those who are coming. She will seem to disappear…

— Barbara Ardinger

“Gaining a mom, even one who had waited fifty-odd years to reveal herself... that wasn't something to throw away lightly.”

— Rick Riordan

“Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.”

— Mavis Gallant

“Yes, it was the love of woman that was the danger, the obstacle on which her dearest wish might founder. How it grieves mothers…

— Georges Rodenbach

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the…

— Junot Díaz

“But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who…

— Gregg Olsen

“Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be.”

— Eleesha

“I remember thinking that moms were not allowed to be sad, that surely women grew out of sadness by the time they had children.”

— Megan Mayhew Bergman