“Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.” ChildrenMotherNextNervousWrecksFingernails Author:Diana Lopez
“I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.” ProblemHomeSchoolYoungMotherFatherLeftHealthPicksNervousWhooping Cough Author:Andrew Wyeth
“[On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable?” KindI CanAgeRememberMotherGirlGrowsGrowing UpBattleFlightNervousFourteenEmigration Book:Under My Skin Source: Under My Skin
“Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?” WayHumansChildrenSoulDoneMotherCertainFeltFamilyKissingNervousCheeksSolitaryStrokesHuman SoulOutragePossessive Author:John Cowper Powys