Quote

I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever.

— Annie Potts

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

— Carrie Fisher

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

— Ayelet Waldman

'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.

— Tess Gerritsen

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

— Gisele Bundchen

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

— Amy Tan

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.

— Eric Braeden

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

— Natasha Leggero

As a mother, I'm constantly feeling like a failure.

— Georgina Bloomberg

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

— Valerie Trierweiler

✗Opposing Perspectives

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

— Jennifer Weiner