Mother Quote by Tahereh Mafi

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.'…

— George MacDonald

Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.

— Oscar Wilde

In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a…

— Rodney Crowell

My mother very rarely skipped a Thanksgiving turkey. And yet, none of them ever tasted quite the same, landing somewhere on a sliding scale…

— Wesley Morris

“I thought of her as my mother, but rarely of myself as her daughter.”

— Janna Malamud Smith

The Saudi ideal of a woman is a religious mother who rarely ventures out: She shouldn't work with men, she should be completely covered,…

— Manal al-Sharif

Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie…

— Raquel Cepeda

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that…

— Betty Friedan

“As I watched her, I understood why a mother would starve herself to feed a baby; how there was always time and room for…

— Jodi Picoult

“I cannot pretend that I understood my mother at the end of her life. I was trying to follow the goals she had set…

— Liza Dalby

“Clementine was thankful her husband understood his mother so thoroughly. She couldn’t imagine how difficult it would be if Ralph was one of those…

— Tessa Arlen

Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of…

— Patsy Kensit