Parenting Quote by Rachel Sontag

“I think my mother found her mother-in-law entertaining, and in a person who entertains us, there is much we forgive.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong, good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself,…

— Piper Kerman

“Forgiveness. I never forgave anyone. Not necessarily because I held grudges, but because no one who had let me down ever asked for it.”

— L.J. Shen

“Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I couldn't help but think of my mother's most life-altering mistake. Silly and romantic, getting married fresh out of high school to a man…

— Stephenie Meyer

“Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.”

— Margaret Dilloway

“It killed me that one of the hardest parts of being a mom was sometimes dealing with other moms. The judgments, the looks, the…

— Bunmi Laditan

“And as for my mom, whatever happened, whatever her reasons were, they don’t really matter anymore other than as a way to know her…

— Eliza Crewe

“If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being…

— Tana French

“After thirty-nine years of being alive, I had forgiven my own parents for not knowing how to care for a child, but that was…

— Gary Shteyngart

“That’s what forgiving was: seeing someone for what they were, flaws and all, not what you wanted them to be, not what they should…

— B.G. Harlen

“I wanted to forgive my mom and my dad so badly for the deep hurt they caused, the fear their broken marriage invoked in…

— Natalie Brenner