Life Quote by Stephen Richards

“It was easier with Mother--always had been--less complicated, less treacherous. I didn't have to be on my guard so much. I didn't have to…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“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

“To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life. Your questions were answered, your freedom…

— Ariel Levy

“But just as no one really knows what it is like to be a mother until she holds her first child, no one who…

— Gregg Olsen

“Mothers took your problems from you and fretted about them for you, even if there was no reason on earth why they should, even…

— Heather O'Neill

“I knew what I was doing. I was helping a family who needed a mother for a few moments. And I was a mother…

— Christine Zolendz

“When I examined my own life, I realized that I had been standing at the foot of my mother's casket for 35 years, grieving…

— Nathaniel J. Williams

“For a long time, I was trapped in this struggle with my emotions about the single person in the world who was my family.”

— Hanna Perlstein Marcus

“Did other people’s mothers vanish into holes in the ground during their midlife crises?”

— Maggie Stiefvater