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Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

Jodi Picoult
Mom, Mother, Real
Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

Jodi Picoult
Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter
Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

Jodi Picoult
Mom, Book, Wife

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

Jodi Picoult
Mom, Mother, Kids
Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

Jodi Picoult
Mom, Mother, Children
Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.23, Harper Collins

A lot of the moms of autistic kids I met are so consumed with being their child's advocate that there's no room for anything else - least of all themselves. It's why so many marriages end in divorce, when a child is diagnosed on the spectrum.

Jodi Picoult
Mom, Children, Kids
Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.593, Simon and Schuster

Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

Jodi Picoult
Mom, Stars, Dad
Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

Jodi Picoult
Mom, Mother, Children
Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if..." and it blossoms into a whole novel.

Jodi Picoult
Mom, Book, Ifs And
Source: www.bookclubforum.co.uk

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