I know her face by heart. Sometimes I think nothing will break her spell. —Daphne Merkin More about this quote Tags: love memory knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the strongest words for what I have to offer come out of me sounding like words I remember from my mother's mouth, then I either have to reassess the meaning of everything I have to say now, or re-examine the worth of her old words. —Audre Lorde More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much. —Lillian Hellman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. —Amy Tan More about this quote Tags: love mind birth parenting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A mother . . . is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their newborn child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult. —Florida Scott-Maxwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What mother and daughter understand each other, or even have sympathy for each other's lack of understanding? —Maya Angelou More about this quote Tags: understanding sympathy mother daughter Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems onto the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Tags: society money problems mother motherhood psychoanalysis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I acknowledge the cold truth of her death for perhaps the first time. She is truly gone, forever out of reach, and I have become my own judge. —Sheila Ballantyne More about this quote Tags: judgement death acknowledgement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. —Jessamyn West More about this quote Tags: ignorance communication youth forgetting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At that moment, I missed my mother more than I had ever imagined possible and wanted only to live somewhere quiet and beautiful with her alone, but also at that moment I wanted only to see her lying dead, all withered and in a coffin at my feet. —Jamaica Kincaid More about this quote Tags: alone mother quiet Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing. —Toni Morrison More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My mother was my first jealous lover. —Barbara Grizzuti Harrison More about this quote Tags: love mother jealousy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She had risen and was walking about the room, her fat, worn face sharpening with a sort of animal alertness into power and protection. The claws that hide in every maternal creature slipped out of the fur of good manners. —Margaret Deland More about this quote Tags: power manners walking protection motherhood alertness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the beginning there was my mother. A shape. A shape and a force, standing in the light. You could see her energy; it was visible in the air. Against any background she stood out. —Marilyn Krysl More about this quote Tags: energy mother Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually remember my dreams.) I dreamed I had died and gone to Heaven. I looked about and knew where I was — green fields, fleecy clouds, perfumed air, and the distant, ravishing sound of the heavenly choir. And there was the recording angel smiling broadly at me in greeting. I said in wonder, "Is this Heaven?" The recording angel said, "It is." I said (and on waking and remembering, I was proud of my integrity), "But there must be a mistake. I don't belong here. I'm an atheist." "No mistake," said the recording angel. "But as an atheist how can I qualify?" The recording angel said sternly, "We decide who qualifies. Not you." "I see," I said. I looked about, pondered for a moment, then turned to the recording angel and asked, "Is there a typewriter here that I can use?" The significance of the dream was clear to me. I felt Heaven to be the act of writing, and I have been in Heaven for over half a century, and I have always known this. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: integrity writing dreams atheism heaven Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email