Dutiful Mother Quotes

“I wonder if there's a difference between being a dutiful mother and being a good mother.'

There is,' I said, and Charlotte looked up at me, expectant.

Even if I couldn't articulate the difference as an adult, as a child I had felt it. I thought for a moment. 'A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes,' I said.

And a good mother?'

I lifted my gaze to Charlotte's. 'Is someone whose child wants to follow her.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Yet our old expectation that the suburbs are homey, tranquil and predictable places continues to gnaw at the feminine collective subconscious. The suburban home still begs for a presiding divinity -- a keeper of the keys and human cares, the archetypal mother of earlier ages.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman