This is motherhood for you,' ...

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.
 Jennifer Weiner

Quotes from the same author

I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.
 Jennifer Weiner
The way I see it, she began, your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids. She said you kids in precisely the same tone I would have used for you infestation of cockroaches
 Jennifer Weiner
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.
 Jennifer Weiner
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books.
 Jennifer Weiner
Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.
 Jennifer Weiner