Quotes About Single Moms

#1. There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude that gives everything back its value. At a certain level of wealth, the heavens themselves and the star-filled night are nature's riches.

Albert Camus

#2. We have souls. And guardian angels. We are never alone. I feel so comforted knowing this.

Zoe McLellan

#3. Perhaps he thinks single moms are crazy. In some ways, we kind of are.

Karina Halle

#4. I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a certain age. For some reason our society wants women to wear labels, and not only on their clothes.

Elizabeth Heyert

#5. Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.

Walter Dean Myers

#6. I always believed that my platform would be speaking to young women that were teenagers that had had their babies and were trying to make it as single moms and still have hope and passions and pursuit of great things in their lives.

Shari Wiedmann

#7. New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#8. Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

David Suzuki

#9. Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.

Gail Collins

#10. God gives us something amazing when he gives us life, and I want to live with gratitude. I want to live in a way that shows how much I appreciate the gift.

Shauna Niequist

#11. Dad's aren't optional. My dad wasn't optional."
"Because he was there ... But if he wasn't there, your mom would have filled in the gaps. That's what moms do.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. she'd wager that they weren't single moms who'd had to poke the radiator vents with a yardstick at 3:00 a.m. to prove that there weren't any snakes hiding in the dark tunnels.

Jodi Picoult

#13. Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly.

Mandy Hale

#14. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

Tanith Lee

#15. This notion that Americans have ... that they don't have to do anything other than be American in order to lead - that's very pervasive in the culture, it goes very deep into how they see themselves here.

Gabriel Byrne

#16. I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.

Gloria Allred

#17. I have a husband, and babysitters; I find it hard. I find it amazing how single moms do it.

Melissa Peterman

#18. My heart and prayers go out to all single moms because it's tough, and I can't imagine any teenager dealing with a baby and all those hormones raging.

Jill Scott

#19. Actually, I figured out how to lose bloody ages ago.
-Mat

Robert Jordan

#20. Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be found in every bookshop in the nation, repeated in a thousand and one volumes with only a single change of phrase in each. It is this: ', with love from Momma.

Vincent Starrett

#21. When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

Bernie Sanders

#22. You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?

Cassandra Clare

#23. We are seeing it. We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it's falling apart because of single moms.

Rick Santorum

#24. Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.

Winona Ryder

#25. Let me tell you, it's a lot easier to raise money for a governor. They have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it.

Terry McAuliffe

#26. The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

Ted Cruz

#27. Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"

Carolyn Maloney