“At home I pulled all my blinds. I said to my Grandmama and Mama this and that. I said to them, You believed in signs. I remember that well. I remembered how my Mama could read the steam coming off a soup kettle. Especially if it had good, fresh marrow in it. And if I didn’t feel good, Grandmama would go out and bring in fistfuls of wild herbs. She’d throw them in broths and read, depending on my ailment. She was half doctor, half priest. I said to her once when I had the croup and she was making me drink something that had grass in it, I said, “Grandmama, are you making me drink magic?” “No baby, this is good ole-fashioned hoodoo.” HomeMotherFamilyMedicineGrandmotherMagical RealismMatriarchsHoodoo Book:Sugar Cage Source: Sugar Cage
“We haven't slept in years. This is an advantage of menopause. Some nights, we meet for coffee at 4:00 a.m.” FeminismFemaleLiteraryMenopauseArchetypesMatriarchs Book:The Mere Wife Source: The Mere Wife
“When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I get to do these experiments. I've been an actor about 51 years now. I've played everything from an 8-year-old black boy to a 72-year-old French matriarch, and they hardly hire you to do that on TV.” YearsLooksActorsBlackBoysImagineTvsTheaterExperimentsLook At MeIconsGlamorousBlack BoyMatriarchs Author:Tyne Daly
“All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.” WantMarriedMatriarchs Author:Sally Phillips
“I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.” LongMotherStrongLinesInspiringGrewGrew UpVery StrongStrong WomenMothers DayLong LinesMatriarchs Author:Erykah Badu
“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.” MenGivingYearsHardFoundBornStrangeBirthForgivingFruitAncientProtestHard ThingsThrough The YearsMatriarchs Author:Lillian Smith
“The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.” ThinkingToo MuchFoodWasteTraditionCookingItalianWasting TimeGrandmaFresh FoodItalian CookingThinking Too MuchCeleryMatriarchs Author:Mario Batali
“I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian and a force as a producer. She paved the way for women to produce and star in their own films, and to balance that with being the matriarch of our family is really inspiring.” IfsWayFactsFilmMotherForceStarsHonestProduceMomBalanceMy MomMotherhoodBrilliantProducersBeing HonestComedianOur FamilyReally InspiringMatriarchs Author:Kate Hudson
“The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.” SportsSeasonsHockeyAncestorOrangeHonoredMatriarchs Author:Nick Bakay
“When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.” SpiritStrongFiguresMy FamilyIndependentRaisedMalesHouseholdIndependent WomenStrong SpiritMatriarchs Author:Tichina Arnold