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I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

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

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.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

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.

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.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or just stay connected are rebuffed or even excoriated as criticism or devilish interference.