Parenting Quote by Tahereh Mafi

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was…

— Paula Hawkins

“It seems to me that the difficult thing in life is to find what stirs you and move toward it. Mom put us first…

— Christa Parravani

“Honestly, of all the unnecessary things her mother had taught her in the last eighteen years, she couldn’t have found two minutes to say,…

— Kristi Ann Hunter

“The things a mother does well are always invisible compared to the things she does badly.”

— Amy Wilson

“Her look was easy to read—she couldn’t understand, we’d always been able to talk, she was hurt. Mothers can give all of that to…

— Deb Caletti

“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.…

— Vivian Gornick

“I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time…

— Kaimana Wolff

“This, I finally realized, was how Mom was able to focus when I was not. It was how she was able to be present…

— Will Schwalbe

“Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any…

— Karen Abbott

“I sat there for a moment and thought about my mom. It was her groans of pain that would get me the most. Sometimes…

— Adam Rapp

“Sometimes being a mother makes you blind. You think you know what's best and refuse to see any other way.”

— Tracy Holczer

“She was not only good at housekeeping, she enjoyed it. After her parents left for work and the other children were at school or…

— Toni Morrison