“You taught me how to love, forgive and care. You taught me how tough it could get and all the despair. You taught me my first words and how to eat, you made me everything I am, and I will ever be. Life seems dull when you’re not around, but with your one smile, everything turns around. You’ve given so much and asked for so little, you’ve sacrificed your dreams to make mine achievable. All my love and actions in this world will fall short in comparison to yours; it will take me a lifetime and many more to reciprocate yours. If I have only one wish, I hope that when I am born again, I have you as my mother all over again. because mommy, no matter where I am, I love you a thousand times more.”
Jane Austen doesn’t give us much about good moms, but here are some other fictional moms I love that show us that there’s not just one way to be a great mom.
Snow White
Biological moms can be great moms.
Regina Mills
Adoptive moms can be great moms.
Emma Swan
You can become a great mom even if you didn’t originally want to be a mom.
Donna Sheridan
Single moms can be great moms.
Amy Santiago
Working moms can be great moms.
Leslie Knope
You can be a great mom in your found family even if you didn’t birth or raise someone. We don’t get to see much of Leslie being a mom to her actual kids, but we see how she acts as a loving mother figure to April.
[Image: A mother reading a picture book to her child. The image is done in a traditional Chinese Paper Cutting style (剪纸). It is set on a background of the Bisexual Pride Flag with flower highlights picked out in the colours of the LGBTQ Rainbow Pride Flag. The sentiment “Happy Mother’s Day” is written around the borders in English, Chinese, Korean + Vietnamese]
