#mother

I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count freckles reaches out toward herself and that reflection has turned into that of a woman on her wedding day, righting her veil. And how, when that bride blinks, she reopens her eyes to see a frazzled young mother trying to get lipstick on straight for the parent/teacher conference that starts in three minutes. And how after that young woman bends down to retrieve the wild-haired doll her daughter has left on the bathroom floor, she rises up to a forty-seven-year-old, looking into the mirror to count age spots. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#daughters #mothers #age

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#am #driver #drunk #i #i am

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#enough #father #god #good #good mother

I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week. ↗

— Marcia Cross

#balance #being #care #days #dream

Mother was,' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and only sharpened with age. ↗

— Karen Abbott

#mother #age

I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that. ↗

— Eileen Davidson

#believe #control #get #going #house

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps. ↗

— Les Dawson

#coming #i #i can #law #mice

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl. ↗

— Roma Downey

#filled #free #free time #girl #i

I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the shooting schedule and balancing the demands of being a single mother, it's a wonder you can squeeze in anything. ↗

— Roma Downey

#balancing #bedtime #being #demands #i

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#being #central #child #i #i always