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“The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.”

People Want Play Mother Clothes Actresses

Author:Lana Turner

“What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.”

Thinking Want Mother My Own Objects Hypocrisy Want Me He Wants Me

Author:Margaret Deland

“There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.”

Children Long Reason Mother Hate Independent Endure Mother And Child

Book:The Iron Woman

Source: The Iron Woman

“First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.”

Firsts Has Beens Mother Perfect Wife Expected First Lady

Book:First Lady from Plains

Source: First Lady from Plains

“[The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the state will use . . . funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling.”

May Children States Use Home Used Mother Purpose Groups Republican Offers Program Abortion Appropriate Agendas Fund Pregnancy Adoption Renewal Taxpayers Reducing Counseling Wedlock

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.”

Ends Lasts Mother Animal Experiments Kingdoms Cruelty Progressive Pregnant Provoking Rapids Cuckoos Animal Kingdom

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.”

Ifs Mother Middle Conversation Argument Talk To Me

Book:The Kitchen God's Wife

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife

“My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.”

People Way Stills Mother Desire Girl Born My Own Steps Generations Taught Daughter Opposites Misery Raised Chinese My Daughter Bitterness Up And Down Stairs

Author:Amy Tan

“She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.”

People Ifs Knows Heart Said Mother Desire Listening Ears Bottom Lasting True Words

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.”

Care Joy Mother Pleasure Worry Virtue Charity Endure Cheer

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.”

Thinking Way Together Mother Understanding Pieces Wind Very Good Setting Settings Wheels Composition Machinery Wrong Way Discord Good Woman Criminality

Book:My Brilliant Career

Source: My Brilliant Career

“... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.”

Problem Age Mother Old Age No Problem

Book:Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

“Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.”

Mother Father Lines Industry Genius Mortals Heavenly

Book:Ten Sermons of Religion

Source: Ten Sermons of Religion

“Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.”

Ideas Facts Mother Sin Ugly Familiar Fancy

Book:Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man

Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man

“In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.”

World Trying Past Mother History Becoming Female Archaeologists

Book:Among women

Source: Among women

“many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.”

Thinking Children Seems Mother Delicate

Book:Traits of American Life

Source: Traits of American Life

“I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.”

Men Mother Eating Greek Household Greece X Men

Author:Arianna Huffington

“The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.”

People Ifs Wells Mean Might Political Mother Politics Process Pay Politician Integrity Reform Tunes Representatives Restoring Financing Pipers Repairing Electoral Process

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who are assured of good care and a sound education that will enable them to face the challenges of a changing world.”

World Giving Children Country Care Faces Mother Sound Challenges Lines Birth Healthy Developing Assured Giving Birth Indicators Healthy Children

Book:Letters From Burma:

Source: Letters From Burma:

“my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.”

Years Feelings Mother Found Five Thirty Five Years

Author:Natalie Babbitt

“Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.”

Ifs Knows Reason Lying Mother Born Sin Originals Shelter Keep The Faith

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.”

Matter Mother Church Baby Arms Catholic Russia Hats Flags Bores Coats Spain Catholic Church Bores You

Author:Ilka Chase

“It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.”

Mother Three Journey Taught Cat Three Times Omen Lieutenants Spats Good Omens

Book:Mårbacka

Source: Mårbacka

“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

“Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother.”

World Important Mother Next Father Please Important Things

Book:The Home: Courtship, Marriage, and Children

Source: The Home: Courtship, Marriage, and Children

“It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.”

Knows Should Wells Enough Mother Born Half Talking Boys Baby Importance Filled Tired Intellect Nonsense Happy Life Infant Conceit Talking Nonsense

Author:Augustus William Hare

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Time Force Memories Sleep Behinds Known Events Movement Return Garden Brilliant Mourning Prophecy Reconciliation Spine Ribs Expulsion

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.”

Mother Desire Tears Son

Author:Jacques de Lacretelle

“Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.”

Feels Joy Mother Wise Son Birth Mother And Son

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a nation, our brains are running out the other end of our power right now.”

Children Ends Hands Bigs Running Used Mother Nations Brain Boys Power Heard Right Now Sticks

Author:Jane Jacobs

“My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.”

Mother Father Water Natural Beloved Companion Old Friends Offspring Mother And Father Beloved Mother

Book:Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir

Source: Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir

“She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.”

People World Believe Children Ends Mother Born Half Quality Forever Son Daughter Adults Weight Burden Active Carrie Bores Redeemer Son And Daughter Wronged

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.”

“No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart!”

Heart May Long Has Beens Mother Voice Wise My Heart Ears Pursue Fancy Companion No Friends

Book:The letters of Mrs. Thrale

Source: The letters of Mrs. Thrale

“Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.”

“you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.”

Ifs Men Giving Writing Long Doe Book Mother Names Wit Old Fashioned Holmes Mother Wit

Book:The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death

Source: The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death

“Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband.”

Ifs Men Mind Looks Mother Son Depends Bears Husband Substitutes Conventional Dependence Pathetic Spinsters

Book:I Pose

Source: I Pose

“Mothers know the difference between a broth and a consommé. And the difference between damask and chintz. And the difference between vinyl and Naugahyde. And the difference between a house and a home. And the difference between a romantic and a stalker. And the difference between a rock and a hard place.”

Knows Hard Home Mother House Differences Rocks Vinyl

Author:Patricia Marx

“Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her.”

Needs Firsts Children Use Able Mother Taken Week Months Understood Narcissistic

Book:Prisoners of Childhood

Source: Prisoners of Childhood

“The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.”

Years Firsts Age Mother First Time Twenties Actresses Hunters Autographs

Book:Ingrid Bergman: My Story

Source: Ingrid Bergman: My Story

“The theater was my mother and my father.”

Mother Father Theater

Author:Ingrid Bergman

“As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.”

Mother Meals Heels Breastfeeding

Author:Kathy Lette

“There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.”

Heart Mother Voice Answers Feet Sweet Arms Return Sight Dancing Spread Infant

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

“Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!”

Feels Firsts Death Mother Born Cities First Time Breaths Blessed Broke Strokes Chamber Crowded Seals Pestilence Bridal Crowded Cities

Book:Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

“[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?”

Knows Children Said Two Mother Restaurants Unruly Infanticide

Author:Joan Crawford

“They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.”

Ifs Soul Mother Father Arguing Mates Adore Soul Mate Mother And Father

Book:It's My F---ing Birthday: A Novel

Source: It's My F---ing Birthday: A Novel

“my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.”

Facts Mother Taste Insult

Author:Merrill Markoe

“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.”

Should Looks Kind Facts Mother Girl Social Causes Birth Disease Shadow Acknowledge Hypocrisy Enlightened Facts Of Life Birth Control Impunity Unmarried

Book:A Matter of Life and Death

Source: A Matter of Life and Death

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