“I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done.” WritingStillsMatterDoneHandsTogetherMotherDiesGirlNextArmsClothesStandingPlentyShirtsGiantsGet BackTendernessDishesT ShirtFoldsBeing A WomanSmall Girl Book:Moon crossing bridge: poetry Source: Moon crossing bridge: poetry
“Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father” LooksMotherGirlFatherCooks Author:Tony Randall
“Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.” LittlesRunningFacesMotherHateGirlFoundHeavenBoysCuttingBrotherHairBabyProtectAdultsFingersPocketsClimbingBubblesTolerateDirtBrothers And SistersJumpingFrogsGumMother LoveBaby BoyOlder SisterBubble Gum Author:Alan Beck
“I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.” CountryMotherGirlDaughterMy DaughterExposedCountry Girl Author:Salma Hayek
“The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother - I come from a Muslim country where boys were more wanted than girls so she always made me feel that there is nothing that I couldn't do as well as the boys if not better.” IfsFeelsWellsMadeCountryWantedMotherGirlParentBoysOne Thing Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantStillsYoungMotherGirlPoorMillionsKnow HowPercentSlaveFeministSexyGrandmotherYoung WomenPoorestMother And Grandmother Author:Isabel Allende
“I couldn't have children, I tried to for years. I've never been pregnant in my life. When I was a girl and fooling around I was scared to death I'd get pregnant, and then when I got married and wanted to have children I couldn't have any. But I don't miss it. I did for awhile, but I realize that I am everybody's mother.” YearsChildrenWantedMotherGirlRealizingMissingMarriedScaredPregnantFooling Around Author:Dolly Parton
“Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.” HumansMeanBigsMotherGirlLove IsBoysBuildingUniversalBetrayalRevengeMythBlockLegendsArchetypeBuilding BlocksMother's LoveTropesWhat It Means To Be HumanHidden TruthBoy Meets Girl Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.” YearsSaidFactsMotherGirlBoysInvolvedTraumaRhythmShirtsWrestlingTwelveT ShirtMy Boys Author:Patti Smith
“My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.” HomeMotherGirlBoysWombMommaWhere We Came Author:Jay Rock
“I feel like a mother-queen-vampire-Dracula because I want to make more girls so I can have more friends and more girls to play with, you know? For a long time, it was really just me. There were other girls in the niche underground, but not on a world level.” KnowsWorldWantFeelsLongI CanPlayMotherGirlLevelsLong TimeVampireQueensNicheOther GirlLike A Mother Author:RuPaul
“By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do that, and I certainly wasn't about to let my girls do it. After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.” IfsHeartMotherGirlReligiousCaughtBlockPerformingPerformersCaught UpPornographyBaltimoreMy GirlHeart Attack Author:Blaze Starr
“A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.” MotherGirlFatherLove IsPleasureObjectsDaughterAngelCompanionBaby GirlMom And DaughterConfidant Author:Richard Steele
“I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.” ThinkingBelieveI CanAgeBeautifulMotherGirlLove YouSonWalkingLuckAgingBirthdayGood LuckYour Son50th BirthdayBeautiful GirlMother Love Author:James Caan
“Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.” MotherSongTurnsGirlFatherLike YouLoversDaughterBe GoodOur DaughterYour Daughter Author:John Mayer