“In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.” MotherFateGoes OnCommunismOur SocietyPlotElsewhereEightyReactionaries Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.” FeelsDoeMotherWishWrittenHusbandMy Husband Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).” MenYearsMotherBornCasesCapableBlameSevenSeventiesSeven YearsCordsBorn Free Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.” KnowsShouldMotherKnow HowSonComfortDaddy Author:Katharine Whitehorn
