There is a volume of love poetry in the prison library. I've memorized it page by page and can recite it word for word. Now I need someone who will listen. —Jerome Washington More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Slipping on my shoes, boiling water, toasting bread, buttering the sky: that should be enough contact with God in one day to make anyone crazy. —Hafiz More about this quote Tags: God enough water sky Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply? —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent, totally dominated her daughter's upbringing and clearly had ambitions to be the power behind the throne once Victoria became queen. The princess slept in her mother's room and was never allowed to talk to anyone except in the presence of her German governess or the duchess. The very day that William IV died and Victoria ascended the throne, the Duchess of Kent came to Victoria after the state dignitaries had departed and inquired if there was anything she could do for her. "I wish to be left alone, " replied Victoria, and the same day she gave orders for her bed to be moved from the duchess's room. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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