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“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, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“She has to have four arms, four legs, four eyes, two hearts, and double the love. There is nothing “singleâ€� about a single mom.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.”
― Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

“It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“Never hesitate to make that decision of leaving,
if staying can only cause more suffering.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Just because I didn't have a spouse to help and enjoy those activities with didn't mean they couldn't happen. Just because my plan A didn't work out didn't mean plan B couldn't be really kickass. In fact, who was to tell me that my life as a single mother couldn't be completely wonderful.”
― emma johnson, The Kickass Single Mom

“I'm a better mom and a better human when I'm standing in love and hope.”
― Candy Leigh, Finding Life In Between...A Journal For Me, To You

“I’m no dynamic career woman. I don’t network or do lunch â€� I work because I have to. My job does not define me, but I try to do it well.”
― Tracy Engelbrecht, The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

“If you fight with a crazy person, an onlooker cannot tell the difference.”
― Emma Johnson, The Kickass Single Mom

“One of single momsâ€� biggest challenges is finding time to do it all. If you have a co-parent, it can be tempting to use those hours and days your kids are with their dad to catch up on housework or professional work. Don’t go down that rabbit hole. Use this time to prioritize self-care. Later, you will read from several
women who so appreciate the time afforded by co-parenting to exercise, build businesses, catch up on TV and movies, nurture their social and dating lives, or just read a book. Do not squander those hours by doing laundry!
Despite how full (and crazy) your days can be, there are always pockets of time you can dedicate to self-care.”
― Emma Johnson, The Kickass Single Mom

“Heavy is the head, forced to wear two crowns.”
― R. P. Falconer

“Sonnet of Single Mother

There is no greater superpower,
In the world than a single mother.
Far superior to the world leaders,
Is the resolve of a single mother.
Wanna learn to build a society?
Wanna become a nation builder?
Spend a couple of months as pupil,
At the feet of a single mother.
Want there to be peace and progress?
Hand social reins to single mothers.
Stand by them as aide with commitment,
Lo and behold, the healing appears.
A mom empowered is a world empowered.
A single mom empowered is creation empowered.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“I was spun into gold ropes, silk petals and rebuilt in it
I found more of Him in it
And me in it.
The wilderness
Is home”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin

“When I was a newly single mom with a toddler and a newborn, I’d cringe when meeting new people,
especially other young parents, none of whom seemed to be anything but blissfully orbiting in their nuclear
family unit. I’d dance around any pressures (perceived or real) to reveal my marital status, until I’d burst, and a
flood of unprompted details would pour out: “I’m-separated-yes-your-math-is-right-my-ex-moved-out-while-Iwas-pregnant-but-he-had-a-brain-injury-and-destabalized-so-it-is-an-unusual-situation-a-medical-crisis-he’sactually-a-very-good-person-I’m-not-angry-about-that-we-are-all-fine!”
― emma johnson, The Kickass Single Mom

“On alimony: "Why should it be your ex's responsibility to give you a lifestyle that you yourself cannot afford?”
― emma johnson, The Kickass Single Mom

“Single Mom

Pada awal cerita, tidak ada yang membuat outline hidunya ingin menjadi single mom.
Tidak pernah ada.
Maka, bantulah mereka dengan semangat, agar mereka bisa meneruskan cerita hidupnya hingga akhir.,”
― Ira Diana

“I opened my eyes and exhaled twelve years of single parenting.”
― Barbara Lynn-Vannoy

“But I was lost without Katie. For fourteen years, she had been the capital letter at the beginning of my sentence and the exclamation point at its end.”
― Barbara Lynn-Vannoy

“When the walls reverberated with the innocent laughter and joy that children bring to the present moment without the baggage of the past or worries about the future, a great weight lifted from my shoulders.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“My deep desire for motherhood was a yearning that overshadowed any accomplishment I could claim as mine.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“I was already missing large parts of Shreya’s life by being away at work for long hours and because of her weekends with her father. Yet I had never considered sending her away either for her benefit or mine. We were yoked together by biology and karma. Our situation was not ideal, but at least we had each other.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Could she be happy outside my daily, direct control? The answer was yes. It was a blow to my ego, but it was true. The epiphany lifted a great weight off my shoulders. Even though I could not understand the grand scheme of things, I could see what was truly important when I applied a simple filter—my child’s well-being—to the situation.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“It must be hard for Chloe as a single mom," Garcia said. "Lots of bills to pay and no one to help. Sometimes people get desperate."
My spider senses tingled. This was not where I had expected the conversation to go.
"Olivia is safe, healthy, and happy," I said. "Chloe works three jobs to support her. They're renting the first floor of a nice house that has three other lovely tenants, and although money is tight, the only real issue she has is an ex who has consistently refused to pay child support or alimony. He's someone you should investigate, not Chloe. He's a nasty piece of work. His parents disinherited him after they found out he'd abused her. He barely scraped through college, and now he's involved with a bad crowd."
"No one is trying to take Olivia away," he said, understanding.
"Then I don't appreciate your attempt to insinuate that my friend would resort to theft to make ends meet. It's beneath you and the dignity of your profession.”
― Sara Desai, To Have and to Heist

“My mom raised me the best way she could with the tools she had available. I asked her once if she found being a single mom harder than being a not-single mom.

"Just because I was married to your father doesn't mean I wasn't always a single mom," she said more than once.”
― Gwenna Laithland, Momma Cusses

“She had enough unreliable people in her life, and she didn’t want Ruby growing up with the same ghosts.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Delilah Green Doesn't Care