“Mother is a verb as well as a noun. We all, male and female, have the capacity to mother others.
And each of can, always, mother ourselves.”
Source: Circle of Life: Inspirational Poetry for Mothers and Other Carers
“She supposed that was the nature of things – sons look to their fathers when they are healthy and to their mothers when they are hurt.”
Source: Hungry Ghosts
“…she performed the expected neighborly duties: presenting tuna-noodle casseroles to the sick, taking in the mail and newspapers of those on vacations so their houses wouldn’t be targeted by burglars, babysitting the occasional dog or cat. Though not the occasional baby: even when my mother offered, parents of babies hesitated. Could they have picked up on her invisible but slightly alarming aura? (Invisible to others; she claimed that she herself could see it. Purple, according to her.) Maybe they were afraid they’d return to find their infant in a roasting pan with an apple in its mouth. My mother would never have done such a thing, however. She was evil, but not that evil.”
Source: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
“I was thinking about my mother. A party like that, with so many of you collected in one place—it might attract her. Draw her here.”
Will regarded Jesse thoughtfully. “And then she would do what?”
Jesse shook his head. “I don’t know. She is unpredictable, but she certainly hates you all, and she has a special loathing for these Christmas parties—she often spoke to me of having been humiliated at one once, and the Enclave not caring.”
Will sighed. “That was me. I read her diary out loud at a Christmas party, long ago. I was twelve. And I was severely punished, so in fact, the Enclave was on her side.”
“Ah,” said Jesse. “When I was a child, I thought it was terrible that she had been so often wronged. Later I came to understand that my mother saw everything as a wrong undertaken against her. She collected grievances, as if they were china figures. She liked to take them out and speak about them, examining them over and over for new facets of evil and betrayal. She held them closer to her than she ever held her children.”
Source: Chain of Thorns
“I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.”
Source: Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
“COVID-19 exposed what women with children and without both already knew: that despite the expectation we all become mothers, we receive little support once we do.”
Source: Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
“Everybody make mistake. Best way is to apologize," she tells me, putting her scissors down and sitting next to me. "But you never apologize." She frowns at me. "Because I'm always right.”
Source: Private Label: A Contemporary YA Romance About Two Chinese Immigrant Teens Finding Love and Belonging
“You lose a mother, there's an empty place that can't be filled.”
Source: Dovetail
“वह ऐसे लौटी जैसे कुछ हुआ ही नहीं था। हिंदुस्तानी माँएं इस मामले में एक्सपर्ट होती हैं। चाहे बड़ी-से-बड़ी बात हो जाए वे सब कुछ दोबारा से शुरू कर लेती हैं जैसे कुछ हुआ ही नहीं हो। पूरी दुनिया भी अगर उनको शुरू करने को कहा जाए तो वे ऐसे शुरू करेंगी जैसे कुछ हुआ ही नहीं था।”
Source: Ibnebatuti । इब्नेबतूती
“दुनिया की सबसे मुश्किल बातें शायद माँ बनकर ही आसानी से कही जा सकती हैं।”
Source: Ibnebatuti । इब्नेबतूती