“What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.”

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

I can’t spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

Rain didn’t make things messy. People did that all on their own.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn’t.

The mother of all the skills is to learn the art of paying attention – Remembering every step you make or anything that’s around you.

If you are blessed enough to become a Mom it is the most beautiful, rewarding feeling in the whole world.

Mother, I want to die this world is too cruel and I am too fragile.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.

Mom, thank you for raising me, teaching me, learning with me and from me.

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

The moon, our mother. The stars, her children.