maternal relationship Quotes

My daughter is in more competition with me. I never wanted to be bigger than my mother or to challenge her.

Cute's good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, 'Who are you as a person?' Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn't know. And, more important, how does he treat you?

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

I love my mom with all my heart. She's my best friend.

My mother, Yolanda, was a little girl who never grew up, and sometimes we would laugh, and I would say things like, 'Okay, so now it looks like I am your mother and you are my daughter,' to which she would reply, 'Well, yes. Handle it and pamper me.'

The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother without and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child's history is never finished.

Yes, I'm mama's girl and she's my world.

Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

I've never felt like I was in my mother's shadow. If anything, I felt like I was in her embrace.

We are always children to our mothers.

My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

My mum still needs all her pots and pans, so she's not giving me any of hers yet.

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.

When you're young, no one cares who your parents are, although Mum would arrive to pick me up in her full hair and make-up and fur, and I used to say, 'Can't you just dress normally, like all the other mums?' I wanted her to blend in more, but I've always been really proud of Mum - as proud as she is of me.

Even though I don't live at home and I'm four hours away from home, I talk to my mom every day - ask how the kids are doing, ask how she's doing, too.

For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.