Autism Mothers Quotes

#1. I miss the sound of your voice
And I miss the rush of your skin
And I miss the still of the silence
As you breathe out and I breathe in

Matt Nathanson

#2. What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

William Dean Howells

#3. As the art of life is learned, it will be found at last that all lovely things are also necessary; a wild flower by the wayside, tended corn, wild birds and creatures of the forest, as well as the tended cattle; because man doth not live by bread only.

John Ruskin

#4. It's not a competition if one person can't even show up for the event.

Nicola Yoon

#5. Sometimes all a parent needs is to know the impossible is actually possible. Hope goes a long way when it comes to autism. Matt gives people hope.

Liz Becker

#6. Matt is the light of my life. When he's away the world seems a bit darker, as if the color of life has drained away.

Liz Becker

#7. All my life, I have been working with children whose lives were destroyed because their mothers hated them.
1981 re: cause of autism

Bruno Bettelheim

#8. Put a knife in your shirt, get close to an Israeli occupier and stab him.

Hassan Nasrallah

#9. The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age.

Jane Yolen