My mama always said, “You got to put the past behind you before you can move on.”
We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back to see how far they’ve come.[to Barbie]
I’m not a monster. I’m a mother.[to Stephen]
You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month, he must have been a happy man.
Mother Nature doesn’t negotiate.
I love you, Mom. I love you more. I loved you first.
Do you know how the cuckoo bird survives? By preying on a mother’s weakness.
When a mother interferes in this business, death usually follows.
What makes mothers all that they are, might as well ask. What makes a star, ask your heart to tell you her worth, your heart will say, heaven on earth, another word, for divine your mother and mine.[singing]
We all eventually turn into our mothers.
That’s what every mother does.[Stephen Strange: Wanda, your children aren’t real. You created them using magic.]
Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.