Mothers Quotes

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering. Anne Lamott
Love Woman Love Is Mother Path Judgment Difficult Every Monkey Say Wire True Sadly Withering Without Mothers Equipped Were Children Unhealthy Many Raise
We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe. Anne Robinson
Love Tend Daughters Mothers Mixture Irritation Them View Grown-Up Awe
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better. Chief Seattle
War Home Revenge Better Old Men Lose Own Young Considered Stay Stay-At-Home Cost Sons Know Mothers Times Gain Young Men Old Men Who Even Lives
Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deaths, and children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not. Christy Turlington
Year Lost Every Those More Likely Because Vulnerable Mothers Maternal Deaths Left Up Times Than Die Children Prematurely Who Million
Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that. Dawn French
People Mother Edge Own Young All-Around Around Mothers Private Want Which Places Young People Even Belong Need
Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A mother's gaze is like a magnifying glass held between the sun's rays and kindling. It concentrates the rays of imperfection on her daughter's yearning for approval. The result can be a conflagration - whoosh. Deborah Tannen
People Result Mother Daughter Gaze Approval Sun Daughters Magnifying Imperfection Glass Rays Between Like Mothers Yearning Subject Scrutiny Themselves Held Reserve Her Level
Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other's power - and underestimate their own. Deborah Tannen
Mother Daughter Power Own Other Sees Both Daughters Feels Underestimate Powerless Overestimate Mothers Where Found
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. James D. Watson
Stupid Only Could Supported Goodly Conception Also Without Mothers Narrow-Minded Scientist Scientists Dull Contrast Just Newspapers Realizing Successful Popular Number
Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be? Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life You Will Job Before Fathers Married Kitchen Know Likelihood Wither Tied Mothers Up Get Get Married Gradually Going Where Which Then Asked Your Grow Grow Up Away Ever
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. Mike Royko
Cheating Hating Pie Yankees Mothers American Tax Pizza Your Income Income Tax
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. Miriam Makeba
Future Parenting Focus Girl Important Society Our Well-Being Mothers
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation. Pope Francis
Today God Marriage People Church Single Sanctity Our Those Ecclesiastical Hypocrites Priests Conceived Because Mothers Were Salvation Children Region Separate Who
Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children. Ali Fazal
Control Nothing Think Only Beyond Mothers Children
Mothers have this huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like, and what we should look like. Amy Tan
Day Born Feel Like Look Always Mothers Cautious Huge Huge Influence Afraid Influence Us Should Teaching
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. Benjamin Spock
Best Good Parenting People Babies Fathers More More People Studied Feel Instinctively Come Like Conclusion Mothers Doing Methods Up Children Different After Bringing
Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or just stay connected are rebuffed or even excoriated as criticism or devilish interference. Deborah Tannen
Hurt Women Responsibility Criticism Overwhelming Sense Corresponding Stay Only Adoration Daughters Attempts Feel Devilish Well-Being Matched Mothers Mixed Contradictions Just Interference Help Connected Even Grown
I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category. Elizabeth Gilbert
Women Those Born Allowed Wrong Feel Like Category Genuinely Mothers Tragedy Up Any Ends Children Happens Really Should Who Near
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? Ellen Goodman
Parenting Gave Fathers Our Distance Hook Criticize More Always How Mothers Off Expected Closeness Them Us Less Many Appreciated
I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are. Ellen Page
Good Matter Guilt Think Tremendous Tremendous Amount Relationships Bad Daughters Between How Mothers Goes Amount
I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. Erykah Badu
Women Strong Long All Women Strong Women Long Line Come Mothers Line Up Very Grew
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children. James Earl Jones
Family You People Problems Important Think Society Enough Fathers Be Real Both Know Because Mothers Real Lot Children Acknowledge Who Present
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. Joan Blades
Motherhood Ability Parent Given Purpose Mothers Manifesto Really Need
America, ever the narcissistic mother, prefers baby bumps to children and expectant mothers to full-fledged bum-and-nose-wiping ones. Koren Zailckas
Mother Baby Narcissistic Mothers Bumps America Children Ever
We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves. Madeleine M. Kunin
Time Opportunities Speed Fathers Must Table Brothers Give Daughters Sons Mothers Provide Up Sisters Same Themselves
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. Margaret Sanger
Free Born Mothers Cannot Race Slave
Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing. Maurice Sendak
Mom Sometimes Will Wrong Thing Wrong Mothers Human Children Human Beings Beings Thing
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