A Bad Mother Quotes

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

Louis de Bernieres

I think there’s a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

Ellen Page

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Ayelet Waldman

It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the ‘bad girl’ or the ‘good girl’ or the ‘bad mother’ or ‘the good mother,’ ‘the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children’ or ‘the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,’ all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.

Annette Bening

There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.

Jane Goodall

The more famous an actress becomes, the less she’s allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people’s mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.

Lana Turner

I am a bad mother.’ Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I’m sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.

Tess Gerritsen

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

Lydia Leonard

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

John Sununu

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother’s Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture’s bad people and behavior.

Anne Lamott

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

Ayelet Waldman

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

Margaret Carlson

I couldn’t be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.

Markie Post

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

Jada Pinkett Smith

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn’t be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.

DMX

I feel bad that I never discussed my mother’s life and times as a career woman with her.

Geraldine Stutz

I’ve got my mother’s acceptance of things and my dad’s drive – not such a bad combination.

Kiki Dee

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they’re bad, they’re the worst thing that can happen. Carrie Fisher

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts… even when bad things happen.

John Wozniak

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

Kitty Carlisle