A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren’t. A messy house sends a coded message to children: “I’m not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.
My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.
A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.
I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one
We all carry our mothers inside us.
My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.
Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.
Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor.
The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.
