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“There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both of you -- to safety. (Daphne Bell)”

Book:Expiration Dates

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“MADAME DE SAINT-ANGE — [...] If in all the world there is a mother who ought to be abhorred she is certainly yours! Superstitious, pious, a shrew, a scold...and what with her revolting prudery I dare wager the fool has never in her life committed a faux pas. Ah, my dear, how I hate virtuous women!”

Mothers Faux Pas Prudery

Book:Philosophy in the Boudoir

Source: Philosophy in the Boudoir

“I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me.”

Mothers Pakistan Pakistani

Book:Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

Source: Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

“Touch is the most basic and fundamental of human experiences. Before we can suckle, before we can even see, we are enveloped by the welcoming arms of our mother. As we nestle into her body, feel the steadiness of her heartbeat, breathe her smell, we embed ourselves with her as our beacon. Her body, her voice, her skin, her touch become the way we orient ourselves as we make our personal journey through infancy, childhood and beyond. And touch is among the most crucial of these elements, not only providing us, in the case of loving touch, with a sense of security and ease in our bodies, but shaping our biology and our neurocircuitry in ways that will affect our tempers and our personalities throughout our lives.”

Psychology Development Mothers Touch Neuropsychology

Book:Bodies

Source: Bodies

“If you have the opportunity today, please go home and tell your mother how much you love her. Do this for your mother, and do this for your new friend Eddie who cannot tell it to his mother.”

Mothers Life Is Short Motherly Love Tell Her

Book:The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

Source: The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

“Yes, I am your mother, but for all that, you seem to me like a scourge. I ask myself what I have ever done to be dragged down into the depths by my daughter. And your father—what had he ever done? And you have presumed to use the word love in connection with this—with these lusts of your body; these unnatural cravings of your unbalanced mind and undisciplined body—you have used that word.”

Sexuality Mothers Lgbtq Homosexuality Families Lesbians

Book:The Well Of Loneliness

Source: The Well Of Loneliness

“And as a Chinese mother, Vera has had years of practice at harboring unrealistic expectations.”

Humor Mothers

Book:Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Source: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

“Carol was an incredible mother. She was also flawed and complicated and a woman, just like me. One summer does not make that untrue. One summer is one summer. It can be a watercolor of beach days. It can change your life.”

Summer Mothers

Book:One Italian Summer

Source: One Italian Summer

“Aria rested a hand on her mother’s shoulder, lending her strength.”

Comfort Mothers Mothers And Daughters Reassurance Mothers And Children Daughter Love

Book:Hearts of Gold Collection

Source: Hearts of Gold Collection

“When Tanya thinks about the kind of mother she wants to be, she knows she wants to be different from her own. She wants to be the kind of parent who never lets her child see any of her own sadness or anger or loneliness, because she knows how much it hurts to see that in your own mother. How stifling it can be; how impossible it becomes to have any of your own feelings. She knows it's impossible, though. That if she tries to mask all of that from her child, she'll just be hiding. And the truth is–children are smarter than that. They'd see right through her. Really what she wants to be is a mother who isn't in pain. She wonders if such a woman exists.”

Motherhood Mothers Something Wild

Book:Something Wild

Source: Something Wild

“A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?”

Writing Mothers

Book:Unearthing

Source: Unearthing

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