Children Quote by Milan Kundera

“There was something almost sacred in the self-sacrifice that I felt was required of me as a mother, caring for this child.”

— Judith Warner

“Perhaps the loaded question is: How often is maternal self-sacrifice really only masochistic martyrdom, destructive to the mother and destructive to the child as…

— Natalie Shainess

“She had been forced by the rules her maker had imposed on her to sacrifice herself for the human. It wasn’t that she wouldn’t…

— wildbow

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were…

— Milan Kundera

“My mother had become a obsession for me, a religion, and the very thought of referring to another woman as Mother seems sacrilegious, a…

— Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

“I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.”

— Laura Whitcomb

“Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. ”

— khaled hosseini

“It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed.”

— David Louden

“Child, people always look for guilt outside themselves. A person chooses the role of the victim.”

— Johanna Verweerd

“And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was”

— Janice Hardy

“Yes, he had the heart to sacrifice his daughter, to bless the war that avenge the loss of a woman.”

— Aeschylus

“Guilt ripped into her like a rusty, serrated knife. It took up residence in her soul, settling in and getting comfortable so it could…

— G.S. Jennsen