American Mother Quotes

“Mrs. Nickell, you were trying, were you not, to reopen a closed file on your husband’s death because you knew that the insurance paid out more than four hundred percent for accidental over a natural cause of death?”
― Gregg Olsen, American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

“The Wells Fargo employees operating the scanners at SeaTac were nearly without exception “have-nots” reveling in the power to tell the “haves” what to do.”
― Gregg Olsen, American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

“She always used tablets. I have never seen her use capsules in my entire life.”
― Gregg Olsen, American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

“Men.’ One point they made was that the way we are raised, we don’t feel like we are worthy of accepting our success, so we fall for some man who will bring us down a notch or two.”
― Gregg Olsen, American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

“Street”
― Gregg Olsen, American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World