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“My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn’t achieve the things she wanted to.”

Children Wanted Young Mother Achieve Tension Having Children

Author:Natalie Merchant

“There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.”

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.”

Dream Bigs Mother Father Teach Achieve Limits Daughter Mother And Father

Author:Hillary Clinton

“...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.”

Thinking Self Facts Mother Opportunity Pleasure Cases Achieve Identity Self Worth Bitter Developing Receiving Sense Of Self Housewife

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.”

Dream Mother Achieve Special Investing Enjoyed Underdog

Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher

“The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.”

“In retrospect, golf for me was an apparent attempt to emulate the person I looked up to more than anyone: my father. He was instrumental in helping me develop the drive to achieve, but his role, as well as my mother's, was one of support and guidance, not interference.”

Wells Persons Helping Mother Father Roles Support Achieve Golf Guidance Interference Emulate Retrospect

Author:Tiger Woods

“I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love.”

“I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.”

Thinking Believe Stills Mother Belief Achieve Example Flying Planes Crash

Author:Joe Bastianich

“One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.”

Ifs Dream Mother Strong Force Realizing Middle Achieve Happenings Daughter East Progressive Middle East Harem

Author:Fatema Mernissi

“The Golden Rule: Do unto others (as in people, Mother Nature) as you would have done to yourself. Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true. Have dreams/goals and never quit working toward achieving them.”

People Knows Self Done Dream Mother Goal Achieve Quitting Golden Being True Never Quit Thyself Mother Nature Golden Rule Know Thyself Do Unto Others

Author:Adam Rodriguez

“His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.”

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Book:The life and work of Sigmund Freud

Source: The life and work of Sigmund Freud

“I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty.”

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Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“The role that Cuba played and the lives of those 2,077 Cubans, whose mothers and families mourn for having lost their children in Africa, helped achieve the true security and independence of Angola. It was a contribution because in the end the Angolan people were the ones who decided that. We also contributed in a definitive way securing the independence of Namibia after years that a United Nations resolution was being ignored by South Africa and the western powers.”