Babe Quote by Mary Blakely

“Mothers are odd things. We're quick to think of their nurturing aspects, but there is also some sort of strange darkness there. It tends…

— Damien Echols

Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their…

— Alexander McCall Smith

After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd read,…

— Mary Blakely

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.

— Anonymous

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than…

— Roseanne Barr

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to…

— Norman Douglas

Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know…

— Rebecca Walker

The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas of correct…

— Anonymous

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly…

— Jodi Picoult

I think mothers get a raw deal in American culture, so I've been defending them. I have three daughters, and I know that as…

— Tyne Daly

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying…

— Margot Fonteyn

Sometimes there's a very special relationship between a mother and her son.

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco