“There isn’t a woman I know who hasn’t said they wished they’d listened to their mother… especially where the three Big Ms of women’s lives are concerned: mothering, money, and men.”
“A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.”
“You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.”
“To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the heart the other two are as well.”
“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, "and I know what I know.”
“No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.”