Brothers & Sisters

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, and since we’ll be busy looking forward to the evening’s season finale, I’ll take the opportunity today to wish the best to Walker moms Nora, Sarah, and Julia; wannabe mom Kitty; and, I suppose, even Holly, in the spirit of the day and all.

Motherhood’s never easy, after all, especially if you’re mothering on a nighttime drama. Below, in honor of the Walker mothers and all mothers, five little motherly rants from Brothers & Sisters. What’s your favorite bit of Walker mom wisdom or invective? Share it in the comments.

“It’s the minimum basic requirement that a party store always have Hawaii. Children have recitals and their parents, their mothers can’t do it all and we rely on our party store to keep up their end of the bargain so that our husbands, our children don’t despise us when we come home empty handed.” — Sarah, An Act of Will

“What you don’t remember is when you had the chicken pox, Sarah had the chicken pox, and Tommy had the chicken pox, and Kevin had the chicken pox, and I had a very bad cold, your dad was out of town on business. Sweetheart, I’m saying this to you with as much love as I possibly can: Sometimes motherhood means sucking it up. Kitty, go suck it up.” — Nora, Compromises

“Stop it! I’m not moving away because I need to replace your father, or I’m afraid to be alone, or whatever else you can think of. I’m leaving to get away from all of you! You think I don’t notice all the eye rolling and sighing and little looks you give each other every time I open my mouth. You’re constantly complaining that I’m manipulative and I’m controlling and I invade your lifes. Well, take a good look in the mirror, my darling children. I try to change one thing in my life, and you all launch so many covert actions, you might as well be the CIA! Oh, God, it felt so good to make a decision for myself without taking everyone else’s feelings into account. No. I’m doing this for me. And frankly, it’s about damn time!” — Nora, Separation Anxiety

“Nora had a husband and a family and money. I scraped together everything for us. I took care of you every single day of your life. Do you know I wasn’t much older than you when I got pregnant? Can you imagine that? Being here by yourself and trying to support a child? But I did it. And if I had to give up some of my dreams, so be it. Because from then on, I put you first. And now you have the audacity to treat me like a second-class citizen?” — Holly, Moral Hazard

“I’m a good mother. I know that. I may not be able to drop them off at school every day, but I am their mother, every day. You can’t punish me for trying to parent and work. I want my kids to know the joy that I get from my work, but it’s nothing compared to the joy that I get from being their mother, every day. And they know that. Please.” — Sarah, Domestic Issues

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