Mother Quotes

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He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

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In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

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The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

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There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: control

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divid

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

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Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a wo

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

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The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

Victoria Billings

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No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America

No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Honore de Balzac

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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequen

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your moth

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their ha

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles -- and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech -- look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

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When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thi

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

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Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

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A Mother's love is something that no on can explain,It is ma

A Mother's love is something that no on can explain,It is made of deep devotionand of sacrifice and pain,It is endless and unselfishand enduring come what mayFor nothing can destroy itor take that love away . . .It is patient and forgivingwhen all others are forsaking,And it never fails or falterseven though the heart is breaking . . .It believes beyond believingwhen the world around condemns,And it glows with all the beautyof the rarest, brightest gems . . .It is far beyond defining,it defies all explanation,And it still remains a secretlike the mysteries of creation . . .A many splendoured miracleman cannot understandAnd another wondrous evidenceof God's tender guiding hand.

Helen Steiner Rice, A MOTHER'S L

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