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“I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.”

Mind Kind Mother Father Sex Ability Intellectual Grandmother Linked

Book:Margaret Mead, some personal views

Source: Margaret Mead, some personal views

“I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation.”

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.”

Ifs Giving Mother Father Birth Honor Our Future Mother And Father

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.”

Children Mother Father Youth Sensible Old Days

Book:Green Dolphin Street

Source: Green Dolphin Street

“a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.”

Men May Mother Father Wife Husband Funeral Wives And Mothers Husband And Father

Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

“You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?”

Knows Want Children Life Is Mother Father Answers Know How Ears Anxious Steady Mother And Father Receiver Sturdy

Book:The Common

Source: The Common

“As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.”

Mother Father Black Pity Founding

Author:Shirley Chisholm

“I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.”

Wells Happens Running Mother Father Democracy Military Train Troops Surrogates

Author:Alfred M. Gray

“To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.”

Mother Father Share Endure Hardship Pioneers Pilgrim

Author:Fanny Fern

“Father-Mother is the name for Deity.”

Mother Father Names Deities Father Mother

Book:Science And Health

Source: Science And Health

“Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.”

Men Mother Father Quality Forever Eternal Men And Women Infinite Father Mother

Book:Science And Health

Source: Science And Health

“[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.”

Want Children Mother Father Names Activism Glad Graves Digging Mother And Father Unicef

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. Brother Kimball quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a God who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if be had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other. If he had a Father, he was made in his likeness. And if he is our Father we are made after his image and likeness.”

Ifs Knows Men Made Ideas Would Be Mother Father Lord Brother Worship Notion Absurd Prophet Mistaken Our Father

Book:The Essential Brigham Young

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."”

People Looks Children Stills Bigs Care Kids Mother Father Parent Love You Birth Bases Take Care Bunch Contact Hopefully Adoption Day To Day Take Care Of Me Birth Mother Open Adoption

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke with a much more of an Australian accent than I have now. However I knew that if I went to England to become an actor, which I was determined to, I knew that I had to get rid of the Australian accent. We were colonials, we were Down Under somewhere, we were those little people Over There. But I was determined to become an Englishman. So I did.”

People Ifs Littles Young Mother Actors Father Strong England Determined Spokes Very Strong Accents Australian Englishmen Scots

Author:George Ogilvie

“Every guy has feminine qualities. You're raised by your mother and father, and so you get qualities from your mother and father. I was mostly with my mother, but I think the pictures turned out good. Whatever.”

Thinking Mother Guy Father Quality Raised Feminine Mother And Father

Author:Justin Bieber

“My father is Swedish and my mother is French.”

Mother Father Swedish

Author:Eva Green

“Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.”

Mother Father Lines Industry Genius Mortals Heavenly

Book:Ten Sermons of Religion

Source: Ten Sermons of Religion

“After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother.”

World Important Mother Next Father Please Important Things

Book:The Home: Courtship, Marriage, and Children

Source: The Home: Courtship, Marriage, and Children

“My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.”

Mother Father Water Natural Beloved Companion Old Friends Offspring Mother And Father Beloved Mother

Book:Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir

Source: Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.”

“Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.”

“The theater was my mother and my father.”

Mother Father Theater

Author:Ingrid Bergman

“They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.”

Ifs Soul Mother Father Arguing Mates Adore Soul Mate Mother And Father

Book:It's My F---ing Birthday: A Novel

Source: It's My F---ing Birthday: A Novel

“Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.”

Men Wells Self Whole Mother Artist Father Teacher Wife Teaching Lovers Husband Scholar Earning Earning Money

Book:Myself

Source: Myself

“What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.”

Thinking Knows Years Mean Together Mother Father Sex Parent Enjoy Saws Listening Daughter Notes Radio Afternoon Hints Upstairs High Notes

Author:Joy Behar

“We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.”

Needs Wells Care Mother Father Opportunity Individual Enjoy Rights Fulfillment Offspring Individual Rights

Author:Mary Frances Berry

“Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.”

Mother Father Psychoanalysis

Author:Germaine Greer

“My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.”

Mother Father Novel Proud Normal Like Me Interviews Perplexed Proud Of Me Perfectly Normal

Author:Lisa Gardner

“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.”

Kind Enough Helping Mother Father Mom Good Mother

Book:Nigger

Source: Nigger

“the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.”

Men Should May Has Beens Home Mother Father Winning Function Bread Division Providing Patriarchy Monopoly Protective Submissive

Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.”

“Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.”

Mother Father Progress Cost Compensation

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.”

“There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.”

Persons Soul Mother Father Objects Son Embrace Beloved

Author:Angela of Foligno

“My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.”

Heart Long Mother Father House Sound Lines Rooms Extras Load Translate Charming Motto Bathroom Hospitality Laundry Long Lines

Book:Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

“The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.”

Children Home Used Mother Father Jokes Used To Be Indian Grandparent Anthropologists Father Child

Book:From the River's Edge

Source: From the River's Edge

“metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.”

Humans Enough God Mother Religion Father Easy Imagine Rocks Kings Metaphor Imagine That Human Experience Eagles

Book:Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

Source: Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

“... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.”

Mother Father Taught Raised Nine Mother And Father

Author:Eunice Kennedy Shriver

“My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.”

Looks Mother Father Walks Behinds Steps Five

Author:Shazia Mirza

“Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.”

Children Mother Father Responsibility Expression Our Children Affection Your Children Love And Affection Expressions Of Love

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“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

“I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.”

Wells Two Mother Father Accepting Taught Praying Models Valuable Two Things Realising Instruction

Author:Patti Smith

“My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.”

Mother Father Stuff Piano Grandfather Violin Fathers And Grandfathers

Author:Pete Seeger

“My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.”

“My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.”

Children Ideas Done Mother Father Sacrifice Married

Book:Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

Source: Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

“I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.”

Thinking Wells Character Mother Father Names My Own Changed Meetings Main Characters Maggie

Author:Matt Groening

“I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.”

Men Looks Soul Eye Mother Found Father Grows Youth Lovers Mouths Bones Flesh Tales My Soul Fairy Old Man Categories Fairy Tale Folds Cracked Fragmented

Author:Jennifer Stone

“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes toward females, but men who have abusive fathers do; the disrespect that abusive men show their female partners and their daughters is often absorbed by their sons. So while a small number of abusive men do hate women, the great majority exhibit a more subtle-though often quite pervasive-sense of superiority or contempt toward females, and some don't show any obvious signs of problems with women at all until they are in a serious relationship.”

“I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to wear them at home. We're talking about a different time period now, when the man was much more the ruler of the house. But I still feel that way, and neither my mother nor Maria is allowed to go out with me in pants.”

Men Way Feels Stills Different Home Mother Hate Father House Talking He Man Periods I Hate Pants Rulers Despised Different Times Time Periods

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

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