Quote by Willa Cather

“There are lots of things sons shouldn’t imagine about their mothers, above all what it was like to become one.”

— Bauvard

“Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn’t…

— Chris Cleave

“She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful…

— Louise Penny

“Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“I wonder if the people of the ground ever feel that their children are too big for their world, too.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.”

— Jane Green

“Like most children, she came into the world assuming everyone was good, and spent the rest of her life discovering otherwise.”

— Shanthi Sekaran

“Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised…

— Enid Bagnold

“But I don't think she ever figured on raising a son by herself. Her family was supposed to form a circle. Now we walk…

— Kendare Blake

“Given her humble origins, few could have imagined the heights she would one day ascend.”

— Jenny Lundquist

“She was the kind of woman who made a sport of finding fault with other people; her favorite target being me. I wasn’t good…

— Clara James

“The males of her kind might grow large with age, but the females grew wise.”

— Hugh Howey