Good enough Quote by Sherman Alexie

“...after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.…

— Aimee Bender

“My mother was very strong about my doing well in school and living up to my potential. Two things were important to her and…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“This was a time of life, she understood, in which you might not know what you were, but that was all right. You judged…

— Meg Wolitzer

“I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for…

— Wendy Davis

“She had never been to college, and I often wondered where her life would have led under different circumstances. She might have been a…

— T.J. Forrester

“I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a…

— Ashlee Willis

“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

“I didn't know I was about to be left with her idea of me; with her idea of my goodness pinned onto me like…

— Margaret Atwood

“Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Mothers are the first professors in the school of character.”

— Hugh B. Brown

“...motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise.”

— Melanie Shankle

“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything…

— Ellen Kushner