Mothering Quotes (page 4)

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• mother father
• mother
• father

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. Angela Carter

• mother
• she
• wild

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts. Burt Lancaster

• happy
• nature
• mother

Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy. Karolina Kurkova

• mother
• insanity
• insane

Mothers are all slightly insane. J. D. Salinger

• son
• mother
• growing up

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. John F. Kennedy

• life
• mother
• words

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?' Mary Kay Blakely

• mother
• world
• worlds

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S. David Rockefeller

• mother
• mothers
• americanism

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s. David Rockefeller

• may
• mother nature
• mother

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared. Geraldo Rivera

• mother
• understanding
• she

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. Arnold Bennett

• love
• mother
• play

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love. Leslie Easterbrook

• mother
• father
• children

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. Aristotle

• mother child
• experience
• great mother

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress. Milan Kundera

• brilliant
• look
• my mother

Dorothy viewed my mother's propensity toward madness not as something to be afraid of, but rather as something to look forward to, like a movie or a newly released color of nail polish.'Your mother is just expressing herself,' Dorothy would tell me when my mother stopped sleeping, started smoking the filters of her cigarettes and began writing backward with a glitter pen. No, she's not,' I would say. 'She's going insane again.' Don't be so mundane,' she would yawn, passing my mother a shoebox... Augusten Burroughs

• good mother
• different
• look

I wonder if there's a difference between being a dutiful mother and being a good mother.' There is,' I said, and Charlotte looked up at me, expectant. Even if I couldn't articulate the difference as an adult, as a child I had felt it. I thought for a moment. 'A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes,' I said. And a good mother?' I lifted my gaze to Charlotte's. 'Is someone whose child wants to follow her. Jodi Picoult