Heart Quote by Marie Antoinette

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy.

— Swami Vivekananda

I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.

— Catherynne M. Valente

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

— Kurt Vonnegut

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never…

— Marion Woodman

I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation.…

— Albert Einstein

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

— Andrew Solomon

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me…

— Harold Brodkey

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

— Meghan O'Rourke

“As a physician, I was trained to deal with uncertainty as aggressively as I dealt with disease itself. The unknown was the enemy. Within…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard to hear…

— Angelina Jolie

My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in…

— Daphne Merkin

“—You have never known a Woman’s body! —I have known the body of my mother, sick and then dying.”

— Roland Barthes