Top 25 Mothers Day Quotes of 204 - Page 9

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

Ayelet Waldman

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Hurt

Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.3, Anchor

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.

Anne Lamott

Inspiring, Mothers Day, America

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

Anne Lamott

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Gay

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

Ann Romney

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Struggle

"Ann Romney: the privileged housewife worth more to Mitt than his millions" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2012.

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

Ann Romney

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

Ann Romney addresses the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.

All mothers go through the exact same things.

Angie Harmon

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mother

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.

Amy Grant

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Strong