Busy Quote by Sheila Heti

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

— Dave Pelzer

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

— Cheryl Strayed

Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.

— Rosemary Mahoney

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

— Namie Amuro

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.

— Doris Lessing

I'm an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to her schedule.

— Ayanna Pressley

I think any parent can imagine how difficult it would be to watch your child suffer.

— Kyle Richards

Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.

— Laura Schlessinger

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

— Joyce Cary

I don't get how deadbeat mother's exist I couldn't imagine not going over and beyond for my child.

— Anonymous

You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be…

— Josephine Humphreys

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

— John Barrymore