Single Mothers Quotes

“Nowadays it is seen as a shame, to marry a girl who is a mother, who has never been married. I want to get rid of that prejudice.”
― Friedrich der große, Erster Diener Seines Staates: Friedrich Der Grosse In Ausgewählten Zitaten

“Removing someone out of your life
Can hurt like a knife,
But sometimes, it may be the only way for you to survive.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we may not be able to stay together,
but our true love and the precious moments we shared will last forever.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Don't let them cause you pain and turn your life into a disaster.
Break free, turn the page and start a new chapter.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“The hardest thing in life is to find yourself with someone, so close to you yet so far.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Relationships break down not because of a partner’s fling and unfaithfulness, but rather because of the other partner’s overreaction and stubbornness.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Maybe that's what life was really about - trying to reclaim the safety and comfort you previously enjoyed inside a womb.”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

“I felt like tooth-paste emerging from a tube.”
― Jack Getze, Making Hearts

“I know grace and mercy was raised
by the same single mother.”
― Jasmine Mans, Black Girl, Call Home

“Heavy is the head forced to wear two crowns.”
― R.P. Falconer, Lilif

“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

“Heavy is the head, forced to wear two crowns.”
― R. P. Falconer

“Christina died of a stroke in the fall of 1971, at the age of sixty-one.
June watched the nurses take her mother's body away. Standing there in the hospital, June felt like she'd been caught in an undertow.
How had she ended up here?
One woman all alone, with four kids, and a restaurant she had never wanted.
The day after the funeral, June took the kids to school. She dropped Kit off at the elementary building and then drove Nina, Jay, and Hud to junior high.
When they pulled into the drop-off circle, Jay and Hud took off. But Nina turned back, put her hand on the door handle, and looked at her mother.
'Are you sure you're OK?' Nina asked. 'I could stay home. Help you at the restaurant.'
'No, honey,' June said, taking her daughter's hand. 'If you feel up for going to school, then that's where you should be.'
'OK,' Nina said. 'But if you need me, come get me.'
'How about we think of it the other way around?' June said, smiling. 'If you need me, have the office call me.'
Nina smiled. 'OK'
June felt herself about to cry and so she put her sunglasses over her eyes and pulled out of the parking lot. She drove, with the window down, to Pacific Fish. She pulled in and put on the parking brake. She took a deep breath. She got out of the car and stood there, staring up at the restaurant with a sense of all that she had inherited. It was hers now, whatever that meant.
She lit a cigarette.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“That was a perfect night. I want more of those. I want a lifetime of perfect nights.”
― Tia Marlee, His Christmas Wish

“Because all around her she could feel the echoey space of no one caring about her or worrying about her or helping her. She might as well have been nursing this baby on an abandoned space station.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“It was the word unfit that scared her, a mother who didn't fit. A mother who wasn't the right kind of mother like all the other mothers. A mother without a ring, who was too young, who let men look at her body for money.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“When you tell a single parent you love them or you want to date them, its not like the conventional love or dating... what they call love is care, empathy, understanding and respect from a perspective that is beyond just saying I LOVE YOU. They have loved, they have seen; there is nothing you'll offer that is different. All they need is peace of mind and if you are not coming to give that, please leave them alone with their kids”
― Victor Vote

“Giving birth before marriage is not a crime that one should fell ashamed of or judged about. Atleast that person was strong and courageous enough to bring that baby on this world. So strong women who are out there fighting!!!”
― Richard B. Gotzen

“Sonnet of Single Mother

There is no greater superpower,
In the world than a single mother.
Far superior to the world leaders,
Is the resolve of a single mother.
Wanna learn to build a society?
Wanna become a nation builder?
Spend a couple of months as pupil,
At the feet of a single mother.
Want there to be peace and progress?
Hand social reins to single mothers.
Stand by them as aide with commitment,
Lo and behold, the healing appears.
A mom empowered is a world empowered.
A single mom empowered is creation empowered.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“She was tired of shuffling around, of living in spaces owned by other people— a landlord would just be another man to whom she was beholden.”
― Sarah Perry, After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

“In dissolving my marriage, I had made things harder for myself, had indeed made them unreasonably difficult – that fact was never lost on me. But I had also negotiated for the most precious commodity on the marketplace of motherhood: time. I remember reading a comment from a Swedish feminist while I was in college. She said that the only hope for achieving parity in the home was through divorce. That had begun to feel true. I pay in pain, but I am free.”
― Nina Renata Aron, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

“Single mothering is challenging the concept of the `male breadwinner and a provider’ model.”
― Shalu Nigam, Single Mothers, Patriarchy and Citizenship in India: Rethinking Lone Motherhood through the Lens of Socio-legal and Policy Framework

“Bit by bit, piece by piece, and fractions by fractions, lone mothers are denting the age-old stubborn patriarchy through their active, conscious, empowered, feminist, and emancipatory mothering while pushing the traditional boundaries of family and gendered relations”
― Shalu Nigam, Single Mothers, Patriarchy and Citizenship in India: Rethinking Lone Motherhood through the Lens of Socio-legal and Policy Framework

“The state and society generally construe single parenthood as an outcome of the breakdown of the traditional heterosexual family; however, what is overlooked in this construction is that diverse situations exist where women as single mothers are encountering different challenges. Also, what is negated is the fact that in modern society, the family structure is altering. In this fast-changing scenario, single motherhood is taking on multiple forms, whereas the laws and policies have failed to keep pace with the shift in the forms of motherhood.”
― Shalu Nigam, Single Mothers, Patriarchy and Citizenship in India: Rethinking Lone Motherhood through the Lens of Socio-legal and Policy Framework

“Despite all odds, the practice of single mothering signifies a political act of resistance against patriarchy and intersecting inequalities. Being on the margins, oppressed, and excluded by society, single mothers, through their active and empowered mothering, are contesting the marginalities and questioning the domination.”
― Shalu Nigam, Single Mothers, Patriarchy and Citizenship in India: Rethinking Lone Motherhood through the Lens of Socio-legal and Policy Framework

“When the religious tenets preach about the dependence of women on men as fathers, husbands, and sons for protection, single mothers are shattering this orthodox notion by being the wage-earners, breadwinners, and providers for their families, besides also taking up the caring and nurturing role.”
― Shalu Nigam, Single Mothers, Patriarchy and Citizenship in India: Rethinking Lone Motherhood through the Lens of Socio-legal and Policy Framework

“But is it okay? Being a mom? You seem okay.' Becca reached out and grabbed Margo's forearm, squeezed the meat around the bone.

Margo tried to figure out how to answer this question. 'I think I'm okay? In some ways, I'm totally overwhelmed, but in others I think I may be doing better than I ever have?”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“And, although the demands of this new life left her with very little time for herself, it seemed to also, strangely, help bring that self into sharp focus, dignify it, and make its needs apparent.”
― Hisham Matar, My Friends

“These women have what [Emma] Goldman calls “external emancipation” - they have the job, the home, and the child. But larger forces premised on a particular type of job structure, home life, and mothering trap them in their emancipation. Essentially, these new opportunities for women do not form a cohesive package. In the United States, making it all work is up to these women individually.”
― Rosanna Hertz, Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood without Marriage and Creating the New American Family

“New York might run on Dow Jones, lattes, dollar signs, and neon lies, but what beats in its breast is it’s people: it’s hip-hop, it’s bodegas, it’s art, it’s Union Square grifters, it’s subway mariachi, it’s two-jobs-and-night-school-thank-you-I’m-fine mothers, it’s daughters full of dreams of making it big, it’s multicolored sons and their hopes blazing bright as a meth tweaker’s eyes.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train