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“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Stills I Can Feelings Pain Mother Can Do Sleep Forget Levels Brain Empowerment Function Incredibles Scary Vocabulary Being A Mother Grumpy

Author:Anna Friel

“Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?”

Mother Mom Terrible Morality Function Victim Sacred Motherhood Criminals

Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“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

“The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.”

Needs Children Has Beens Problem Mother Father Born Attitude Teaching Particular Function

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being able to take a shower. 'Mobility' means being able to reach the glass of water on the dresser while not breaking the baby's suction on the breast. 'Flexibility' means being able to push the Record function on the VCR without dropping the baby.”

Mean Home Able Mother Water Records Baby Function Glasses Breasts Coming Home Concrete Showers Abstraction Flexibility Dropping Mobility New Baby Dressers Vcr

Author:Marni Jackson

“Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive function alone. She is the perpetually violated passive principle; her autonomy has been sufficiently eroded by the presence within her of the embryo she brought to term. Her unthinking ability to reproduce, which is her pride, is, since it is beyond choice, not a specific virtue of her own.”

Has Beens Ideas Mother Choices Term Ability Pleasure Principles Virtue Pride Function Sexuality Denial Concrete Passive Autonomy Embryos

Author:Angela Carter

“My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.”

Different Play Kids Used Mother Found Father House Church Records Saws Function Jazz Piano Choir Buzz Mouthpiece Church Choir Jazz Records

Author:Johnny Griffin

“I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.”

Thinking Knows Feels Mother Inspiring Like You Function Void Mothers Day Sad Things

Author:Marie Osmond

“If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.”

Ifs Should Would Be Law Mother Asks Answers Watches Daughter Performances Function Traditional Opposition Comment Household In-laws Mother In Law Daughter In Law

Book:A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988

Source: A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988

“At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.”

World Needs Children Persons Might Faces Form Mother Next Born Psychology Baby Personality Birth Function Independent Urges Conquest Womb Absorbing Bodily Functions

Author:Maria Montessori

“The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.”

Wells Mother Nations Baby Protect Highest Function Possession Well Being Precious Possessions

Book:The Century of the Child

Source: The Century of the Child

“I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.”

Inspirational Trying Kids School Mother Night Team Basketball Normal Daughter Function Coaches My Daughter Softball Basketball Team

Author:Tim McGraw