Back Quote by Maya Soetoro-Ng

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult…

— Dani Shapiro

And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I…

— Sarah Dessen

When she died, Mom left me her letters and journals. Windows into things I would have been too young to understand when she was…

— John Dickerson

I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's…

— Allen Ginsberg

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I…

— Susan Smith

For a long time, I let my mother say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed…

— Junot Diaz

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

— Namie Amuro

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended when my…

— Cheryl Strayed

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

— Linda Hogan

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

— Cheryl Strayed

Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone…

— Farrah Fawcett

I had a mother complex going on and I was projecting all my negative mother stuff onto her and all of my need for…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall