" I never wanted to be a mother,” Rose said wistfully. “I thought that because I had a terrible mother, I would be a terrible mother.”
“That’s how I feel,” Olivia said.
“Don’t make the same decision I made. I actually think the opposite can be true, meaning that if you had a terrible mother, you are that much more conscious of being a wonderful mother yourself. "

― Susie Orman Schnall , The Subway Girls