Like Mother, Like Mother Quotes

“Lila’s style of mothering when the girls were young was nonchalant and intermittent, nothing like her spiky and seductive Globe personality.”
― Susan Rieger, Like Mother, Like Mother

“I’m proud of the country for electing a Black president twice,” Doug said.”
― Susan Rieger, Like Mother, Like Mother

“Southerners don’t hide their crazy people in an attic. They bring them out. They show them off. No one cares. They only want to know whose side of the family, mother’s or father’s.”
― Susan Rieger, Like Mother, Like Mother

“You are the hero of your own life.’ I was blasted sideways. ‘You stood up for yourself,’ she said. ‘You must always stand up for yourself. Every time you stand up for yourself, you feel better. Maybe not in the moment, maybe not for months, but down the line.”
― Susan Rieger, Like Mother, Like Mother

“The test of an idea,’ she’d say, ‘is its written expression. If you can’t write it clearly, you’re not thinking clearly.”
― Susan Rieger, Like Mother, Like Mother