“Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.” WayChildrenTodayFacesMotherWaitingChallengesMessagesFulfilledMother And ChildChallenges We Face Author:Lee Jong-wook
“A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'” IfsChildrenLittlesImportantHelpingMightMotherGirlAsksPleasureClearTeacherMessagesBusyBotherPuzzlesFrustratingRequestImportant Work Author:Daniel Goleman
“I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to each other are so fierce; that is why, when love and trust have not been too badly blemished or destroyed, the teaching and learning one from the other is so indelible and bittersweet. We daughters must risk losing the only love we instinctively feel we can't live without in order to be who we are, and I am convinced this sends a message to our mothers to break their own chains, though they may be anchored in prehistory and attached to their own great grandmothers' hearts.” ThinkingGivingFeelsHeartMayMotherOrderChallengesBreakRiskTeachingBirthMessagesLosingDaughterConvincedDestroyedChainsWho We AreGrandmotherFierceOnly LoveBittersweetMother And DaughterTeaching And LearningLove And TrustIndelibleGreat GrandmotherPrehistory Author:Alice Walker
“You are not doomed to reproduce what your ancestors have done. The son will not be like his father, the daughter will not be like her mother. She can invent something new. I think that is the best message of modernity.” ThinkingDoneMotherFatherSonMessagesDaughterSomething NewAncestorDoomedModernityLike Her Author:Pascal Bruckner
“When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.” SaidJobsRememberFacesMotherParentVoiceDarkTeacherSeeingEffectsTelevisionHusbandMessagesSkinsHearingInterviewsGradesCreamImmediate FamilyDark Skin Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“That would be the frontispiece. This was a picture of my mother and me coming out of the United States Supreme Court, with fecal matter smeared across our faces. They wrapped it in wax paper so that when I received it I'd get the full impact of the message. Though I haven't gotten anything quite that original lately, there's still never a dull moment in my mailbox.” StillsMatterStatesMomentsWould BeFacesMotherUnitedUnited StatesHavensPaperMessagesOriginalsImpactCourtSupremeDullComing OutSupreme CourtMailboxes Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“Everything I've done was above board, as an actor I wanted to do two things. I wanted to entertain as well as get a message across. I never did no pimp roles, no negative roles, or anything like that. I had fun, everything I've done I'm proud to take my mother to.” WellsTwoDoneWantedMotherActorsFunRolesProudMessagesNegativeBoardsTwo ThingsPimpHad FunI Had Fun Author:Mr. T
“Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.” FirstsChildrenMotherNovelMessagesPhonesAgentsNovelistsHospitalsContractsBeing A Mother Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I wanted to be the first mom to be a mom on TV. I wanted to sent out a message about how us women really feel.” KnowsFeelsFirstsWantedMotherFatherTvsMomMessagesSitcomBeing A MomEnchanted Author:Roseanne Barr
“To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.” IfsNeedsYearsChildrenCountryAmericaMotherHouseWhiteSpecialSonMessagesDaughterWelcomeWhite HousePledgeAdvocatingYour SonSon And DaughterSpecial NeedsSpecial Needs Children Author:Sarah Palin
“When messengers are sent to minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred, friends, and fellow beings. Our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and friends who have passed away from this earth...bringing messages of love, warning, reproof and instruction, to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh.” LoveAgeEarthMotherFatherBrotherMessagesFellowsStrangerFleshMinistersWarningInstructionOur FatherMessengersPassed AwayKindredBrother SisterReproofSisters And Friends Author:Joseph Fielding Smith