#mothers

I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, that acrobatic feat of love where everything is turned upside down and yet they are both still able to keep their balance. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#hope

There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids. ↗

— Stephen King

#mothers #kids

Mothers are all slightly insane. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#mothers #slightly

But mothers lie. It's in the job description. ↗

— John Green

#mothers #mother

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. ↗

— C.S. Forester

#argument #drinking #gin #mothers #alcohol

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#daughters #grow #grow up #models #mothers

The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#hope #inspirational #mothers #stars #strength

Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change? ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#mothers #change

You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large....” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away. ↗

— Melisa M. Hamling

#mothers #change