She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful need to nurture.
Louise PennyThe women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read.
They mothered each other.
Tags: mothering friendship-and-love
Mina thought to herself, watching, her momma was the kind of woman she wanted to be, wherever else she got to in her life.
Cynthia VoigtTags: mothering
She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~
Susan WiggsTags: life-experience motherhood life-lessons mothering
We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.
Katrina KenisonA talent for building children's souls, Hilde. So building their souls that they might grow straight and fine, nobly and beautifully formed, to their full human stature. That was where Aline's talent lay.
Henrik IbsenTags: mothering
All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.
Brenda ShaughnessyTags: mothering
When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I realized that my mother had done all of these things for me before I remembered. I was fed; I was washed; I was clothed; I was taught to speak and given a thousand other things, over and over again, hourly, daily, for years. She gave me everything before she gave me nothing.
Rebecca SolnitTags: family children childhood motherhood babies mothers family-relationships mothering 29
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