Clinging Quote by Mason Cooley

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

— Beatrice Wood

And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. I…

— Suzanne Collins

My mother didn't know what to do with me.

— Juan Gabriel

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

— Lillian Hellman

When I lacked even the self-respect to keep myself alive, she dabbed my cuts and I fell back into being a son; I fell…

— Mitch Albom

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved…

— Billy Corgan

My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more…

— Katharine Graham

My mother raised me, and then freed me,

— Maya Angelou

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

— Cheryl Strayed

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

— Walker Percy

My relationship with my mother was unhealthily close. She was very supportive but wanted to fulfil her ambitions though me and was very reluctant…

— David Starkey

As a child I made a pact with my mother. I agreed that we were doomed, that she and I abided together in a…

— Darcey Steinke