Single Motherhood Quotes

“I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.”
― Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave

“A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy'
Albert Einstein”
― Victoria Ward, The Unconventional Life of Jenna Jaghe

“Fathers of the fatherless sons and daughters, you all need to get on the full-time ship of love, support, and financial help. Your parental alienation is emotional child abuse. As you violate fatherhood, your children build up walls and it is not so easy for them to forgive. If it’s not too late, you need to make it right."

- Charlena E. Jackson, Author of Dear Fathers of the Fatherless Children”
― Charlena E. Jackson, Dear fathers of the fatherless children

“Sometimes I feel as if I've lived about six lifetimes...all fictionalized in my six books.”
― Laurel-Rain Snow, Miles to Go

“Single Mothers
Your shoulders are heavy,
but you stand tall and raise your head high,
knowing that you are raising kings and queens, future leaders of the world.
You are pounding the pavement, kicking butt, making it look easy but we know better;
we know the struggle,
we understand the pain.
The road feels lonely
but you are not alone.”
― Janet Autherine, The Heart and Soul of Black Women: Poems of Love, Struggle and Resilience

“My god
is frozen-mouth. She is get-out-of-this-town-

or-hell-freezes-over. She is paycheck
to paycheck. Each night when she goes to bed, my god

kisses her kids’ clean faces, then, thanking herself, her own.”
― Jennifer Givhan, Protection Spell

“... - I couldn't help but notice the placidity of a small female household. In Tracey's home, disappointment in the man was ancient history: they never really had any hope in him, for he had almost never been at home.”
― Zadie Smith, Swing Time

“[Single or lesbian motherhood] can be seen as [one] of the most violent forms taken by the rejection of the symbolic ... as well as one of the most fervent divinizations of maternal power - all of which cannot help but trouble an entire moral and legal order without, however, proposing an alternative to it”
― Julia Kristeva

“Her mother had once screamed, “How am I going to pay for this? Why don’t you take better care of yourself?” Her mother didn’t have time for empathy. She always had to keep moving. If she stopped, she might drown.”
― Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

“A single mother! I’ll put you on the watchlist for post-natal depression then!’.”
― Sophie Heawood, The Hungover Games: A True Story

“Luhi wahine 'ia.

Labored over by a woman.

Spoken in respect and admiration of a family reared by a woman who alone fed and clothed them.”
― Mary Kawena Pukui, Nā Wahine: Hawaiian Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Celebrating Women in Hawai'i