Jodi Picoult Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Mothers Day, Beautiful

• Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, School

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

• I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Parenting, Funny Parent

  "My Sister's Keeper". Book by Jodi Picoult, April 6, 2004.

• The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

• My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

  Jodi Picoult

  Family, Mother, Instinct

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.19, Harper Collins

• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

• Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Mother, Real

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

• I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Father, Love You

• Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Father, Grief

  Jodi Picoult (2004). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.591, Simon and Schuster

• I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sister, Mother, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

• I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Keeping Faith”, p.23, Harper Collins

• No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Father, Love You

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

• What I want, more than anything, is to turn back time a little. To become the kid I used to be, who believed whatever my mother said was one hundred percent true and right without looking hard enough to see the hairline crack.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Kids, Cracks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

• Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Dog, Numbers

• As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero and a comfort all at once. If only I'd had her, surely, she would have been the answer to every problem; if only I'd had her , she would have been the cure for everything that ever had gone wrong in my life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Superhero

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.521, Simon and Schuster

• That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Baby, Missing

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

• My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Moving, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

• Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

• Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

  Jodi Picoult

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

• A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Want

• Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

• When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Baby, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

• The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Judging

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

• When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Dream, Real

• There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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