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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Whenever I feel I am going through my own 'little' challenging moment, I just think about my mom.

My mother really loved me. And one of the gifts that I have been given is that I have never thought for one second of my life that I was not greatly beloved.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn't speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.

Everything I see, I now see through a mother's eyes.

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Night is the mother of thoughts.