Cheryl Strayed Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. I had to remake it again and be a new person in the world without my mom. It was a very primal rebirth, that time after my mom died.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mom, Mother, Grieving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Blood is thicker than water, my mother had always said when I was growing up, a sentiment I’d often disputed. But it turned out that it didn’t matter whether she was right or wrong. They both flowed out of my cupped palms.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Growing Up, Blood

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

• I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me." "Oh, Mom," was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else."

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Mom, Daughter

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.241, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Grief, Son

  "DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column №78: The Obliterated Place". therumpus.net. July 1, 2011.

• One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you. Don’t hold it up and say it’s longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Regret, Spring

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #64: Tiny beautiful things". therumpus.net. February 10, 2011.

• …the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Believe, Safety

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”, p.59, Vintage

• My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Funny Relationship, Iron

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.16, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I WOULD be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Strong, Stars

• I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Grieving, Suffering

  "How Cheryl Strayed Found Her Path". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2012.

• My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Home, Animal

  "How Cheryl Strayed Found Her Path". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2012.

• My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Self, Savages

  "How Cheryl Strayed Found Her Path". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2012.

• When someone you love truly dies, you have to find them over and over again in the world, and I think you do that on a very psychic, unconscious level, and I think in some ways I was calling out to that spirit of my mother when I saw the fox. It doesn't surprise me it's in animals that I find my mother.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Animal, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's funny, it never occurred to me that a movie star would play me. But now that she [Reese Witherspoon] is playing me, it's like, of course, it couldn't be anyone else! I don't know if you've seen pictures of Reese and me and Reese and my daughter Bobbi, who's named after my mother, and also plays me. There's a kind of resemblance.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.

• My mom died when I was 22. My stepfather, who I loved like a father, pretty quickly got involved with another woman. Suddenly there was another woman sleeping in my mother's bed, and it was very difficult. Their relationship brought up my profound loss, and the truth was that my family would never be the same again.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mom, Mother, Father

  Source: www.wbur.org

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