When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.