Mother Quote by Roxane Gay Download Open image ““His mother was yet another indignity he was forced to endure.”” — Roxane Gay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mother Parenting
“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.” — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.” — Thomas Arnold Copy Share Image
“Buried feelings of anger and vengeance washed over him as he thought back to the time he discovered who his real father was and… — Angel Sefer Copy Share Image
“His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.” — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the blows of the world hurt… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“His mother never gave up on him, even when he lashed out at her, took her money, and failed her in so many ways.… — Ron Franscell Copy Share Image
“It was Mom whom I could not live without. Fathers, I was convinced, could not replicate the emotional security and nurturing that mothers provided.” — Leslie Gilbert-Lurie Copy Share Image
“He did not in his heart respect his mother, and without acknowledging it to himself, he did not love her, though in accordance with the ideas of the set in which he lived, and with his own education, he could not have conceived of any behavior to his mother not in the highest degree respectful and obedient, and the more… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
“I wanted my mother to love me. Despite all the torture and brutality.” — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than… — Caroline Moorehead Copy Share Image
“Human endurance fascinates me, probably too much because more often than not, I think of life in terms of enduring instead of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them are terrible, and most of them make the lives of the women they love much harder than need be. Why? Because that's the kind of storytelling I was drawn to when I wrote these stories, most… — Roxane Gay Copy Share
“I was a daydreamer and I resented being pulled out of my daydreams to deal with the business of living.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I shouted, “This is not right,” knowing my words were useless. There’s no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“What about other women of color? For Hispanic and Latina women, Indian women, Middle Eastern women, Asian women, their absence in popular culture is… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There has been, and there will continue to be, vigorous discussions about race in America. I worry that little will come of these discussions… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
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