Children Quote by Susan Smith

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended when my…

— Cheryl Strayed

I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn't enjoy being a child very much. I felt…

— Finneas

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But…

— Mary Tyler Moore

For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children needed me,…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

Being a single mom, I fought my way through living in poverty, feeling like I wasn't ever enough, feeling an annoying tug that we…

— Stephanie Land

My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I…

— Dorothy Allison

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

— Susie Bright

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

— Cheryl Strayed

Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet…

— Sissy Spacek

There were days when I would just go home and cry because it was that hard, but I didn't want to give up just…

— Jessica McDonald

I longed to be a mother, and every good mother knows how to spot toxic and dangerous situations to protect their children, even those…

— Porsha Williams

I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there…

— Anonymous