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Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.”

Said Mother

Author:Elayne Boosler

“The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.”

“No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.”

Mother Son Daughter Spots Darling Reserved

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction”

Writing Firsts Moments Earth Lasts Mother Given Careers Novel Happened Wind Months West Satisfaction East Significant Forty Housewife Manuscripts Life Happens Good Earth

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.”

Character Stories Mother Grandmother Ireland

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.”

Men Kind Earth Mother Found Born Enemy Birth Elements

Author:Pliny the Elder

“While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.”

People Needs Humans I Can Mother Father Birth Universal Constant I Realized Analyzing Human Needs Immaturity

Author:Anais Nin

“My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all.”

Littles Mother Daughter Refuse My Daughter Call Me Grandson

Author:Joan Rivers

“A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.”

Long Hands Mother Loss Leafs Plight Figs Prudes

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.”

Mother Sex Brain Wife Fashion Lovers Cease

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.”

Mother Passion Grows Greater Vices Noble Satisfied Insatiable

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.”

Self Mother Love Is Virtue Self Love Deities Protective Surgeons Disenchantment

Author:Honore de Balzac

“How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.”

Children Mother Thoughtful Hypocrisy Cows Thieves Merchants Dupes Swindlers

Author:Honore de Balzac

“It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.”

Two Enough Play Mother Strong Roles Wife Duty Easier Exercise Authority Contrary Obligation Strong Enough Widows Good Mother Good Wife

Author:Honore de Balzac

“In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.”

Mother Fate Goes On Communism Our Society Plot Elsewhere Eighty Reactionaries

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.”

Feels Doe Mother Wish Written Husband My Husband

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.”

Mind Mother Baby Kissing

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.”

Art War Mother Term Imagination Progress Cry Expression Revolution Experiments Invention Nurse Voyages Ennui

Book:Poets of America

Source: Poets of America

“Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.”

Thinking Remember Death Mother Father House Rooms Our Father Think Of You Departed

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series

“Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.”

Enough Mother Bears Anger Forgetful Forbearance

Book:The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius

Source: The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius

“My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.”

School Mother Worst Cooking Cooks Lunch Articles Clothings

Author:Rita Rudner

“Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.”

Dream Law Mother House Wonderful Cost Pet In-laws Mother In Law

Author:Phyllis Diller

“All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.”

Mother Knees

Author:Phyllis Diller

“I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.”

Long Mother Lines Long Lines

Book:Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy

Source: Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy

“[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.”

Writing Firsts Children Age Mother Father Alive Poet Eight Mother And Father Pissed Off Odes Dead Mother

Author:Judith Viorst

“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”

Children Character Christian Mother Influence Mom Appreciate My Mom Motherhood Being A Mother Great Mother Inspirational Mothers Inspirational Motherhood Molding Godly Mothers

Author:Billy Graham

“When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.”

Spirit Mother Wife Style Holy Creatures Glory Filled Holy Spirit Glorious Adam Ornaments Living Creatures

Book:The Life of Luther

Source: The Life of Luther

“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.”

“A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.”

Men Mother Conditions Average Defined Housewife Single Mother

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

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