Alexander McCall Smith Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Daughter, Mother, Running

  FaceBook post by Alexander McCall Smith from Dec 12, 2016

• My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mother, Father, Nice

  "Alexander McCall Smith: My family values". Interview with Michelle Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

• And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mother, Discovery, Parent

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “Love Over Scotland”, p.279, Hachette UK

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