When I Married My Mother Quotes

“No matter how much our bodies may age, the heart never grows old.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“We are the only life form that can bring a purpose to our lives. It doesn’t make sense to strive and strive and then die without any meaning to it.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“Tough times never last, but tough people do! Schuller’s”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“No matter how much our bodies may age, the heart never grows old. We”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“Then there was the Carolina Jumping Wolf spider that looked like an anorexic tarantula and was impossible to smash because it jumped out of the way. You had no idea where it went. You could only hope it wasn’t on you. Say”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“The work on the renovation of her future bathroom was living up to my Law of Pi: however long you think something will take to finish, or however much you think it will cost, multiply it by 3.14. The”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“A person suffering dementia often chooses one person as the scapegoat for whatever is bothering them. It’s how they funnel their fear. When my mother couldn’t find something, which was often in a house so messy, she was sure he’d taken it.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“anxiety was that “40 percent will never happen; 30 percent are things from the past you can’t change; 12 percent are criticism or gossip, mostly untrue; 10 percent are about your health; and 8 percent are real problems. Therefore, 92 percent of all anxiety can be cured!”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“A world that embraces compassionate care of their elderly is a better world in general.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“Cruel as it may seem, you realize as well as I that not everyone gets to marry the person they love the most.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“Some psychological studies have shown that happiness rises when choices decline. I balked at this notion at first, but understood it better when faced with the simple decision of what orange juice to buy. There were dozens of choices where there used to be two—quart or half gallon.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“A repairman said to her, ‘Ma’am, that’s the biggest smile I’ve ever seen.’ She quipped, ‘Yep. I look just like a jackass.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“Maybe the matchmaking adage “every pot has a lid” doesn’t apply to someone who comes from a long line of skillets.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“I had discovered that there is no greater gift than to be with someone at the end of their life. True, you might get a concrete reward out of it—like an enormous doll collection, or more—but all that I had accomplished professionally had never given me the satisfaction, and appreciation for life, that caring for my mother had.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“It was clear whom she loved at the end of her life. Mike still wrote sweet e-mails, always carefully crafted to both of us. I read them to her. They always made her smile. “He was the best neighbor I ever had.” It tore me up every time. No matter how much our bodies may age, the heart never grows old.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“Despite my optimism over moving to Miami, I was still a serious misfit. I vowed I would never get married, never have children, never rely on a man to pay my bills after seeing my mother’s post-divorce reversal of fortune. Oh yeah, and I would kill myself when I turned thirty. Everyone over that age seemed miserable.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“Why, bless your heaaart.’ It really means ‘I wouldn’t want to be in your shoes for anything.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“New Yorkers think they’ve seen it all, heard it all, and know it all. But I learned from watching The Hour of Power—a Sunday-morning religious TV show—that being hard to shock was not the same thing as being tolerant.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“When he told me he believed every word in the Bible because, “knowing what I know about mankind, we couldn’t have written it if we tried,”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“I thought again about those studies that say the fewer choices we have, the happier we are. I also wondered why it is that our parents, whom we should know the best and care for the most, are often the most inscrutable and hardest to love. Maybe it’s Mother Nature’s way of helping us to make our own lives and, later, to cope with their loss.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo

“You get into a conversation with a preacher, he’s got to preach.”
― Jo Maeder, When I Married My Mother:A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters--and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo