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Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence, I find it interesting to live in a country where your government is allowed to kill, whether it's war or execution. What interests me is not who deserves to die but who deserves to kill.”

Way Trying Kind War Country Problem Government Kids Mother Dies Interest Interesting Violence Deserve Raises Solve Code Execution Honorable Death Penalty

Author:Susan Sarandon

“I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.”

Knows Feels Mother Felt Echoes Mother's Love

Book:Lucy: A Novel

Source: Lucy: A Novel

“The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.”

Mother My Own Rooms Shadow Tunes

Book:At the Bottom of the River

Source: At the Bottom of the River

“Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.”

World Bigs Would Be Eye Able Mother Wall Shadow Standing Casts Corners Frightened

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.”

States Mother Careers Wife Fame Female Beloved Ties Prize Obscure Beloved Wife

Author:Jane Porter

“It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.”

Character Mother Moral Circumstances Morality Behavior Daughter Comment Virtuous Severe Notable Moral Character

Author:Antoine Rivarol

“Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.”

Men Wells Self Whole Mother Artist Father Teacher Wife Teaching Lovers Husband Scholar Earning Earning Money

Book:Myself

Source: Myself

“Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.”

Spirit Mother Artist Fall Enemy Teacher Wife Land Lovers Violent Mates No Friends

Book:Myself

Source: Myself

“Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.”

Mother Careers Four Groups Guilt Mother Love Food Love Live Every Day

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but they'll never say no to one holding a mop.”

Children Littles Mother Turns Advice Sensitivity Grown Children

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.”

Mother Winning One Thing Agree Can't Win

Book:The Middle Ground

Source: The Middle Ground

“My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.”

Heart Mother Values Humanity Lines Bottom Bottom Line

Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.”

Mother Black Identity Poet Stronger Feminist Warrior Indivisible

Author:Audre Lorde

“When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing.”

Wells Remember Mother Speak Knowing Source Mouths Coming Out Our Relationship

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.”

Mother Vision Poet Honor Complexity

Author:Audre Lorde

“As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.”

Knows May Pain Joy Mother Jesus Christ Love Is Dying Bears Jesus Christ Blessed Endless Bores

Book:Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich

Source: Daily Readings with Julian of Norwich

“The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.”

World Hard Mother Felt Loss

Book:Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Source: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.”

Men Want Should Young Mother Marriage Picks Daughter Young Man Good Mother

Author:J. Ogden Armour

“She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.”

Mother Wonder Permission Daydreaming

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western civilization is to concentrate upon and increase the solidarity of the family. This solidarity begins with a child at the mother's breast.”

Way Children Helping Mother Civilization Increase Western Wave Currents One Way Breasts Combat Solidarity Western Civilization

Author:Grace Kelly

“When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.”

“I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.”

Knows Made Dream Body Hands Earth Mother Speak Paper Bird Tongue Pens

Book:Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

Source: Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

“For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.”

Men Giving Children War Mother Couple Raises Soldier Parks Willingness Honored Statues Be A Man Child Soldier

Author:Carol Gilligan

“The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.”

People Thinking Firsts Mother Parent Becoming Empathy Shoes Motherhood Priorities Introducing Selflessness Storyteller Amazing Things Being A Mother Slugs Becoming A Parent

Author:Olivia Wilde

“There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and their careers. If they take their careers seriously, they are labeled as bad mothers. If they spend time with their children, they are labeled as people who can't be serious about careers outside the home. This is a sexist double standard. No such guilt trip is imposed on men, who are generally not forced to choose between their children and their jobs.”

“Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!”

Mother Poor Lord Conditions Tomorrow

Book:Joan of Arc: Self Portrait

Source: Joan of Arc: Self Portrait

“What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.”

Thinking Knows Years Mean Together Mother Father Sex Parent Enjoy Saws Listening Daughter Notes Radio Afternoon Hints Upstairs High Notes

Author:Joy Behar

“Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.”

Age Mother Childhood Definitions Committed Witty Delicate

Author:Kay Boyle

“advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.”

Children Care Life Is Mother Opportunity Greater Rights Womens Rights Workplace Avenues Public Life Inconsistent Housework Advocating Insistence Every Avenue

Author:Mary Frances Berry

“We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.”

Needs Wells Care Mother Father Opportunity Individual Enjoy Rights Fulfillment Offspring Individual Rights

Author:Mary Frances Berry

“Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.”

Mother Father Psychoanalysis

Author:Germaine Greer

“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.”

“The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.”

Children Doe Mother Song Bird Justify Cages Enforcement Compelled Mother Love Caged Caged Birds

Book:The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.”

Facts Mother Accepting Married Italian

Author:Diane Cilento

“So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?”

Mother Havens

Book:Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)

“It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.”

Law Mother Objectives In-laws Mother In Law

Author:Beverly D'Angelo

“[On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.”

Mother Mom Champion Tennis Being A Mom Your Mom Your Best Friend There Comes A Time Be Your Best

Author:Lindsay Davenport

“Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You don't understand, and you'll never understand!' The mother stamps her foot in aggravation, but in this case the daughter is right: the mother doesn't understand. She merely remembers, and memory is separate from experience.”

Way Remember Mother Memories Cases Feet Daughter Scream Right Way Stamps Frustrating Steers Aggravation

Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.”

Knows Years May Mother Years Ago

Author:Nancy Friday

“My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.”

Mother Father Novel Proud Normal Like Me Interviews Perplexed Proud Of Me Perfectly Normal

Author:Lisa Gardner

“I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.”

I Can Sometimes Whole Mother Talking Phones Carpet Doing Nothing

Author:Beth Henley

“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.”

Kind Enough Helping Mother Father Mom Good Mother

Book:Nigger

Source: Nigger

“Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.”

Mother Planets Milk Coconuts

Author:Dick Gregory

“the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.”

Men Should May Has Beens Home Mother Father Winning Function Bread Division Providing Patriarchy Monopoly Protective Submissive

Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.”

“Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.”

Mean Mother Disappointing

Author:Meg Ryan

“Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.”

Important Mother Management Guilt Time Management

Book:Lean In for Graduates

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.”

Littles Mother My Own Too Much Theory Understood Doctors Disorder Darling Mother Love Mental Disorder

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.”

Men Hard Jobs Mother Roles Wife Ancient Myth Scripture Etc Description Legends Goddess Revising Psychoanalytic Temptress

Author:Caryl Rivers

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