Selfish Mother Sayings

#1. I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.

Tracey Emin

#2. Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.

Tracey Gold

#3. Because I'm attractive and sucessful so if I can't get a man I must be failing at something?

Jane Green

#4. My mother said I broke her heart ... but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us ... but within that inch we are free.

Alan Moore

#5. What's going on? Not much. My mother's falling to pieces, my sister is a selfish bitch and my father's committing slow suicide for sake of his kingdom. That's all.

Karen Miller

#6. When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

Rachel Tucker

#7. A child fish asks mother fish, 'Mother, why cannot we live on the Earth?' Mother fish replied, 'Dear ... it is not the place for fish, it is the place for selfish

Santosh Kalwar

#8. As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.

Kate Christensen

#9. I don't like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women-that you've failed yourself as a female because you haven't procreated. This continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself; that I don't want to be a mother, and how selfish that is.

Jennifer Aniston

#10. People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

Mother Teresa

#11. Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share
maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded
never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.

Anne Cassidy

#12. His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return,

George Orwell

#13. When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

Fred Wilson

#14. Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

Myrtle Reed

#15. Had I been too selfish? I had never known my mother, but I knew my life as it had been without her: the ship, the sea, the myths, the maps . . . and, yes, Kashmir. The pain I felt at the thought of losing him - the same pain that kept me at arm's length - gave me a hint of my father's own struggle.

Heidi Heilig

#16. It's all your fault, Mother,' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that!' exclaimed Mother. 'I never did anything of the sort!' 'Well, we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance,' said Larry.

Gerald Durrell

#17. After all, Sergios was not all bad. He was tough, ruthless, arrogant and selfish, but while he might have the morals of an alley cat, he had been remarkably kind to her mother.

Lynne Graham

#18. I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

Katharine Hepburn

#19. I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

Kelly Clarkson

#20. I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love.
Then - I have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.
Then - I can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.
Then - I feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#21. I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

Christina Aguilera

#22. They were unfailing in their love for me, and most of the time they had gotten nothing in return. Maybe that last part was the proof that my mother was right. They only gave, and I only took.

Amanda Hocking

#23. Is the working mother selfish ?

Jacqueline Scott

#24. It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.

Mother Teresa

#25. I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

Helen Slater

#26. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Teresa

#27. For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

Alison Lohman

#28. She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

Shannon Celebi

#29. If you acquaint yourself with yourself, you don't always like the person you find inside.

Ellen Hopkins

#30. I am too selfish to be a mother, I can barely tolerate being his lover at this point. I am selfish and I make no apology for that. ~Shannon~

A. Giannoccaro

#31. I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

Brooke Hayward

#32. It is a terrible thing to feel sorry for one's mother or indeed father. And it's an additionally awful thing to feel this and to know the impotence of the adolescent to do anything at all about it. Worse still, perhaps, is the selfish consolation that it isn't really one's job to rear one's parents.

Christopher Hitchens

#33. I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

Rebecca Ferguson

#34. 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