Single Parent Quotes

“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

“Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.”
― Anthony Liccione

“It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.”
― Nikki Rowe

“One day you’ll wake up and you’ll realise that you’re OK again.”
― Carole Matthews, Paper Hearts & Summer Kisses

“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

“It’s really hard to deny a kid who’s father has passed away. We all just wanted you to be happy so we messed that up. Your career wasn’t about the money. Not at first. It gave you both something big to do so you could stay busy and forget how much you missed your dad.” His heart twisted, and he whispered, “When I think of him...I don’t remember his face, but I do remember how much it hurt to have him simply there one day and gone the next...just gone.” Nan nodded. “Imagine how your mom felt. Your dad was the love of her life.”
― Anne Eliot, Unmaking Hunter Kennedy

“I became a mother before becoming sick, but i never expected sickness to take away my independent mothering, so i plant trees to sooth my soul from the aching pains of losing the maternal ability to mother another child. My first born will be my only treasure, the one who knew who i was before the mess entered our lives and also the one who adapted with me to a reality we weren't certain of oh and lots of plants and plants and plants.”
― Nikki rowe

“Sometimes people grow up together and sometimes they grow apart. You just have to try to make the best of it.”
― Carole Matthews, Paper Hearts & Summer Kisses

“Hes that kind of man. Every few years he sends news of where he is, and he even turned up on the doorstep unannounced once or twice when we were still at school. He's not a bad person, just a flighty one.”
― Josie Silver, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

“I mean imagine that shit. You bust your ass as a single parent, and your kid treats the absentee parent like a rock star. But love is like water and it slides over the smooth places. Sinks into the cracks.”
― NoNieqa Ramos, The Truth Is

“सिंगल पेरेंट्स का मतलब सिविलियन समाज के लिए नया है परन्तु फौज के लिए यह व्यवस्था उतनी ही पुरानी है जितना फौज का अस्तित्व।”
― Vandana Yadav, कितने मोर्चे

“give me my mother’s bone structure / & her gap tooth slaughter / give me her spine—Redbone got a spine for the world.”
― Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

“I truly love my friends but the idea of being a damaged woman if you’re alone.”
― Lana M. Rochel, Looking For Your Tribe: Poems

“It’s really hard to deny a kid who’s father has passed away. We all just wanted you to be happy so we messed that up. Your career wasn’t about the money. Not at first. It gave you both something big to do so you could stay busy and forget how much you missed your dad.”

His heart twisted, and he whispered, “When I think of him...I don’t remember his face, but I do remember how much it hurt to have him simply there one day and gone the next...just gone.”

Nan nodded. “Imagine how your mom felt. Your dad was the love of her life.”
― Anne Eliot, Unmaking Hunter Kennedy

“Have a great relationship with your ex.”
― Roger McEwan

“I debate adding kisses, but don’t. They might be misconstrued as something more than being friendly.”
― Carole Matthews, Paper Hearts & Summer Kisses

“For not taking care of his own child, a man can, with reason, argue that he made, not the child, but love.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A single parent is one who, despite gender classification, should be sent both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day goodwill messages.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Yes,' agreed Mike. 'Not forever. But it's your family that has turned this into two worlds. With me he'll have a choice. I will do everything in my power to give my son a choice.”
― Susan Kraus, All God's Children

“Tarot is not about predicting the future; it's a tool for reflection, offering us a mirror to our inner selves and guiding our journey through the mystery of life.”
― Tarot Master Roger, Straight Up Tarot: No Curves Needed

“Tarot is the journey of the soul, a spiritual compass that illuminates our path, sparking understanding and transformation within ourselves.”
― Tarot Master Roger, Straight up Tarot: Single Parent Edition

“Slowly, fearfully, I crept into the kitchen. The gas-smell burned my nostrils. It hadn't been on long enough to fill the room and spill out to the rest of the house. But its intent was clear: my mother was sitting on a chrome dinette chair, legs crossed at the ankles, her arms dropped down her sides toward the floor, as if in submission to her impending death. (The Women in Me: How They Helped Me Survive and Thrive, p. 13)”
― Jackie O'Donnell, The Women in Me: How They Helped Me Survive and Thrive

“Ahhh…17. The age when love is the most important thing in the world. Well, at least having a boyfriend is, since all the other girls I saw seemed to float dreamy-eyed while being glued to a boy. Naturally, I fell in love for the first time in my life. Better still (in the other girls’ eyes), he was an older man—six years older than me. He was so gorgeous, with his athletic build, dark, touchable hair, ocean blue eyes that invited me to swim in them…sigh…. Then there was that dimpled smile that made me melt. And could he ever kiss! (p. 22)”
― Jackie O'Donnell, The Women in Me: How They Helped Me Survive and Thrive

“The first man I dated was just the relief I needed from stress. He was a very good dancer. In fact, he was very much a party person. I was ready for some fun. He liked driving to the ocean in his fully equipped, gleaming white camper. There he would hike around the area and spend some time just chilling. We dated only a few months before getting engaged. Yup. I did it again. I jumped at the first relationship that made me feel good. Then I discovered that he had another girlfriend along with me. (p. 49)”
― Jackie O'Donnell, The Women in Me: How They Helped Me Survive and Thrive

“As I’m writing this, I look down at my companion, my cat, Butter. He’s in one of his favorite positions, sprawled out, belly up, at my feet. We share as close a human-animal bond as possible, which is quite a bit. Not all cats obviously allow themselves to love you or even acknowledge your existence, but Butter does. Those soulful green eyes looking up at me in trusting dependence assure me that I am special, even if I am a human being. (p. 113)”
― Jackie O'Donnell, The Women in Me: How They Helped Me Survive and Thrive

“When I recall the morning that the paramedics wheeled Ray out of the house on that sterile-looking gurney, my stomach churns, wanting to vomit. This was possibly the most traumatic day of my life. I was terribly frightened by my intelligent best friend-husband’s uttering inconceivable utterings, making no sense, which told me that he was having a massive stroke. I followed the screaming ambulance to the hospital, where they rushed him in for the MRI that confirmed the stroke. (p. 97)”
― Jackie O'Donnell, The Women in Me: How They Helped Me Survive and Thrive