Edna O'Brien Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Later as the day cools and they have gone in, the cry of the corncrake will carry across those same fields and over the lake to the blue-hazed mountain, such a lonely evening sound to it, like the lonely evening sound of the mothers, saying it is not our fault that we weep so, it is nature's fault that makes us first full, then empty.

  Edna O'Brien

  Beautiful, Mother, Lonely

  Edna O'Brien (2007). “The Light of Evening”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

  Edna O'Brien

  Mother, Country, Father

• Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

  Edna O'Brien

  Mother, Jesus, Hate

  Edna O'Brien (1978). “Seven novels and other short stories”, HarperCollins

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