20 Stepmom Quotes - Celebrate Your Stepmom on Mother's Day

T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“A home isn’t always the house we live in. It’s also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”

Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Happiness [is] only real when shared.”

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Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.”

Azriel Johnson

“Step parents are not around to replace biological parent, rather to augment a child’s life experience.”

Murasaki Shikibu

“Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.”

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Leigh Anne Tuohy

“Families don’t have to match. You don’t have to look like someone else to love them.”

Jessica James

“When it feels as if you can’t do right by the other parent, do right by your stepchild instead. You’ll never fail with best interest at heart.”

Unknown

“A healthy stepmother knows that somedays she’s a stagehand, somedays she’s the leading lady, and somedays she’s the audience…and she plays each role with style and grace.”

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Anne Brown

"Co-parenting is not a competition. It's a collaboration of two homes working together with the best interest of the child at heart. Work for your kids, not against them.

Unknown

“A good stepparent can literally turn the life of a child around.”

Al Hodson

“The only steps in this house are the stair steps, and the only half in this house is the half-and-half creamer.”

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Unknown

“A child cannot have too many people who love them and want to help them succeed.”

Beth Huber

“Remember why you chose to come together in the first place—the love that you have for your partner. Your partner’s children are an extension of them, and this makes them just as important to your happiness.”

Sarah Dessen

"Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. It's always evolving, turning into something else."

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Unknown

"A stepparent is so much more than just a parent: They made the choice to love when they didn’t have to.”

Dave Willis

“Family isn’t defined only by last names or by blood; it’s defined by commitment and by love.”

Barbara Bush

“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”

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Desmond Tutu

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

Richard Bach

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.”

Maribeth B Jones is the Design Director of Country Living where she creates seasonal content full of warmth and playfulness. When she’s not wrangling chickens for a cover shoot you can find her collecting vintage oil portraits or flipping pancakes in her sunny, yellow kitchen with her two chatty daughters.

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