“When they’ve finished reading, Olivia’s mother gives her a kiss and says, ‘You know, you really wear me out. But I love you anyway.’ And Olivia gives her a kiss back and says, ‘I love you anyway too.'”— Ian Falconer, amazon.com
“Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark … to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.”— JK Rowling, parade.com
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”— Maya Angelou, parade.com
“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”— Mitch Albom, parade.com
“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”— Gail Tsukiyama, parade.com
“It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”— Roald Dahl, parade.com
“But my mother's hair, my mother's hair, like little rosettes, like little candy circles all curly and pretty because she pinned it in pincurls all day, sweet to put your nose into when she is holding you, holding you and you feel safe, is the warm smell of bread before you bake it, is the smell when…”— Sandra Cisneros, amazon.com
“Women feel more guilt than men, not because of some weird chromosomal issue but because they have a history of being blamed for other people’s behavior. You get hit, you must have annoyed someone; you get raped, you must have excited someone; your kid is a junkie, you must have brought him up wrong.”— Germain Greer, edition.cnn.com
“Being abused can seriously affect your ability to distinguish between “not obviously pleased” and “obviously displeased” because abusers go from Neutral to Hostile for absolutely no discernible reason, and eventually you start worrying that everyone is going to be like that and you start feeling thi…”— Anonymous, iwonderwhatsfordinner.tumblr.com