Depressed Mothers

Famous quotes containing the words depressed and/or mothers:

“The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run—each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away—each a small separation, a small distancing.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)