“Real women have children, wise women choose for themselves.”
Source: Do I Have To Be A Mother?: A Childfree Woman's Struggle with Doubt and Loneliness
“I missed my one true friend, my mother. She and I were close in a way I don't think many other mothers and daughters were. I slept beside her every night of my childhood: so near to her back, I could probably sketch the constellation of moles and freckles on her skin there. When I was a very little girl, every morning I would wake before her and arrange myself so that when she woke, we were eye-to-eye. I miss her, with a never-ending ache that I did not think was possible, that crowds out any other feeling and certainly all reason, and any good sense.”
Source: We Love You, Charlie Freeman
“MOTHERS
Measuring
Out
Their
Highest
Efforts
Rearing
Souls”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis which, at times, was very wonderful and comforting; at other times an unwelcome invasion of privacy (words from Aurelia Plath from the Introduction)”
Source: Letters Home
“My rugrats give me gifts that say "#1 Mom" on them and I'm like, bwhahahahaha, joke's on you, I'm more like the #1,297,279 Mom. But they truly think I'm the best mom on earth. And that's all that matters.”
Source: I Want My Epidural Back: Adventures in Mediocre Parenting – Honest Stories and Hilarious Observations on Raising Kids
“Taking a deep breath, I shake my head and find Judge staring at me. "Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans," I say. "Once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“Motherhood can be seen as a political act. (...) when adressed, disconnections can become opportunities (...) Even when sons seem to be disinterested (...), a mother's efforts are extremely important. This is how we continue to build relationship with sons.”
“I may not be the best mom. I may not even get back to being the average mother I once claimed to be. But I'm here. I'm getting back up. I'm not leaving. And I'm the mom God ordained for these fours souls, and therefore I am their best mom.”
Source: Still Life: A Memoir of Living Fully with Depression
“We really had a close netted structure to rely on for anything, you could have gone by anyone house and get something to eat. Whatever they were eating, they would’ve fed you, and all the mothers would’ve treated you just like they treated their own. What the gang also did, it provided some level of protection for a lot of the working adults in the neighborhood. They knew that their houses were safe, when they went out to work and didn’t have to worry about anyone breaking in to their homes. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members”
Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
“Preston doesn't do well with trouble. But that's why I'm here. That's why my name is Mommy.”
Source: Second House from the Corner