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“all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.”

Believe Long Sometimes Enough Lying Mother Can Do Secret Behinds Majors Daughter Emergencies Aggravated

Author:Phyllis Bottome

“You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major force in their whole lives. You need to do the job adequately and as best you can, and then provide them with independence from you. You have to give them enough so that they won't need you anymore.”

World Want Needs Giving Children Enough Whole Jobs Mother Force Majors Independence Whole Life Your Children Need You

Author:Josephine Humphreys

“Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over and over, gives us the Gift of Life Like many of the gifts we receive from our mothers, the Gift of Life usually doesn't fit properly and is almost never returnable without a major hassle.”

Giving Firsts Moments Mother Born Mom Fit Majors Gifts Of Life Hassle

Author:Linda Sunshine

“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”

Love Funny Mother Careers Four Groups Majors Humorous Guilt Witty Secret Love Food Love

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.”

Thinking World War Mother Courses Father Sides Loss Forget Five Four Brother Majors My Family Died Russia War Of The Worlds Second World War Great Loss

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.”

Hard Mother Memories Healing Careers Happened Baby Majors Motherhood Driving Eighty Reconciliation Having A Baby Reclamation

Book:Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey

Source: Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey

“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with.”

Wells Problem Mother Father Becoming Involved Majors Time Travel No Problem Major Problems

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts

“The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death.”

Wells Mother Three Majors Population Destroying Goddess Entity Eastern Fertility

Author:Sigmund Freud

“My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.”

Should Has Beens Mother Humanity Father Stars Majors Should Have Dragons Tails Astrology Should Have Been Firmament Nativity

Author:William Shakespeare

“I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.”

I Can Use Mother Energy Ability Crime Majors Shame Discrimination Episodes Early Life

Author:Betty Friedan

“So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.”

Ends Mother Streets Wall Majors Accomplishment Initiative Basements Occupy Wall Street

Author:Ann Coulter

“I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.”

Men Feels Years Children Different Age Mother Culture Three Father Parent Five Four College Married Majors Our Children Seven Five Years Divorced Eleven Anthropology Eighteen Different Cultures

Author:Lily King

“Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.”

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“Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.”

Children Mother Struggle Five Son Months Husband Office Married Majors Pressure Cancer Eight My Children My Husband My Son Radiation Burned Surgery Threatening Dental

Author:Anne Graham Lotz

“I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.”

Knows Men Way Want Ideas Would Be Wanted Jobs Young Mother My Own Trouble College Demand Majors Letters Hated Young Man Serving Good Job Thrilling Shorthand English Major Plain English

Author:Sylvia Plath

“Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.”

Home Mother Realizing Differences Majors Hundred Instinct Eleven Backyards Deserted Away From Home Unforgivable

Author:Melina Marchetta