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“But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother.”

“O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.”

Eye Lying Mother Waiting Nature Secret Patient Bosoms Gracious

Author:Margaret Junkin Preston

“In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline.”

Mother Sleep Land Dirty Fleeting Naps Interrupted Diapers Lifelines

Author:Susan Chira

“a mother is God's deputy on earth.”

Earth Mother Deputies

Author:Rahel Varnhagen

“Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.”

Happens Mother Roles Wife Special Example Draws Breaths Planning Ritual Womanhood Widows Qualifications Widowhood

Author:Jacquelyn Mitchard

“Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.”

Mother Friendship Skills Observation Nurse Tenderness Physicians Diligence Vigilance Best Mother

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.”

Mother Father Progress Cost Compensation

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.”

Running Mother Water Born Rivers Rome Veins Naples

Author:Augusto De Luca

“An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express myself in a very definite style but by means of all kinds of materials and formats. I wish to discover how my own creativity unfolds under different circumstances... Naples is a dilemma that fatally elicits an oneiric interpretation and I love it and feel grateful because it has nurtured my fantasy.”

Men Feels Kind Mean Different Self Mother Wish My Own Creativity Fantasy Style Materials Circumstances Grateful Deeper All Kinds Companion Interpretation Definite Dilemma Format Naples

Author:Augusto De Luca

“The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.”

“[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.”

Wells Kind Long Made Mother Our Lives Theory Type Judgment Perception Summer Long Time Instruments Psychological Made It Our Family Preference Introversion Jung

Author:Isabel Briggs Myers

“Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.”

Mother Causes Powerful Generations Influence Welfare Future Generation

Book:The mother at home: or, The principles of maternal duty familiarly illustrated

Source: The mother at home: or, The principles of maternal duty familiarly illustrated

“Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.”

“What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so many sympathies! When we consider how exquisite are those conditions by which it is even made capable of so much suffering--the capabilities of a child's heart, of a mother's heart,--what must be the nature of Him who fashioned its depths, and strung its chords.”

Humans Heart Children Made Mother Suffering Conditions Divine Capable Depth Proof Capability Organs Tenderness Human Heart Chords Exquisite

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.”

Moving Mother Prayer Results Silence Elements Silent Obscure Mould Deepest Life

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Not alone is the child born through the mother, but the mother also is born through the child.”

Children Mother Born Not Alone Childbirth

Author:Gertrud von Le Fort

“A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.”

Mother Baby Heavy Heavy Things

Book:Borrowed Children

Source: Borrowed Children

“In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.”

Way Feels Children Mother Grief Family Husband Died Following Gods Will My Children My Husband Consolation Short Time Hindrance

Book:The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno

Source: The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno

“There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.”

Persons Soul Mother Father Objects Son Embrace Beloved

Author:Angela of Foligno

“I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.”

Wells May Mean Enough Facts Mother Women White Class Rich Daughter Tools Weight Majority Folks Diets Flash Assimilation Dieting Mobility

Author:Elana Dykewomon

“I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.”

Mother Losing Daughter Losing Myself

Book:In My Mother's House

Source: In My Mother's House

“Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.”

Long Mother Identity Reflection Female Mirrors Photograph Glimpse

Author:Debra Evans

“A mother never fully delivers.”

Mother Childbirth

Author:Judith Kelman

“There's no discounting the antagonism the average woman feels for the eldest daughter. The infuriating thing is that most mothers blame the daughters for their hatred when it's just what makes the mother pig eat her first batch of young. Of course one can't tell them that.”

Feels Firsts Young Mother Courses Daughter Hatred Blame Average Pigs Antagonism Eldest Infuriating Eldest Daughter

Book:Letters of Mari Sandoz

Source: Letters of Mari Sandoz

“[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting.”

Mother Please Painful Fury Exhausting Her Smile Make Her Smile Signs Of Love

Author:Tove Ditlevsen

“[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.”

Men Children Mother Accepting Wife Concern Notes Vices Following China Feminine Penalties Infidelity Sections Adultery

Author:Nora Waln

“My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.”

Heart Long Mother Father House Sound Lines Rooms Extras Load Translate Charming Motto Bathroom Hospitality Laundry Long Lines

Book:Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America

“What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?”

Mother Gone Baby Wit Mother Love Gone Away Mother Wit

Book:Season of Delight

Source: Season of Delight

“The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.”

Children Home Used Mother Father Jokes Used To Be Indian Grandparent Anthropologists Father Child

Book:From the River's Edge

Source: From the River's Edge

“Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.”

Mother Decision Tiny Being A Mother

Book:The Husband's Secret

Source: The Husband's Secret

“Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.”

Men Years Children War Body Mother House Language Wife Scene Husband Smart Strikes Video Despite Bombs Ministry Burned Weeping Defence Describing Pentagon Mother Child Craters Wife Mother

Author:Marie Colvin

“You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.”

Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Grief Hair Sorrow Lifetime Swept Away

Book:Elegy: poems

Source: Elegy: poems

“metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.”

Humans Enough God Mother Religion Father Easy Imagine Rocks Kings Metaphor Imagine That Human Experience Eagles

Book:Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

Source: Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women

“I find it very heartening that of the women I have questioned lately about their feelings towards their mother, all the ones whose faces light up and who say, 'She's wonderful' have been daughters of women who work outside the home.”

Has Beens Feelings Home Light Faces Mother Wonderful Daughter Work Out Light Up

Author:Mary Stott

“From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.”

Giving Mother Rocks I Have Learned

Book:The Judy Grahn Reader

Source: The Judy Grahn Reader

“Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.”

Mother Direct Connections Gender

Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.”

Way Mother Sound My Own Path Grew Findings Grew Up Daughter Filled Smoke My Way Kitchen Vegetables Recipes Impatience Vacuums Recollection Mother Daughter Tin Ovens Frying

Author:Patricia J. Williams

“... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.”

Mother Father Taught Raised Nine Mother And Father

Author:Eunice Kennedy Shriver

“Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.”

Use Lying Mother Language Genius Ambiguity Communicators Teflon

Author:Robin Lakoff

“So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?”

Ifs Thinking Should Said Mother Marriage Break Four Married Yeah Hey Hips Settling Thirty Desperate Mum Eighty Settling Down

Author:Sue Margolis

“My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind.”

Looks Mother Father Walks Behinds Steps Five

Author:Shazia Mirza

“[On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4:] I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.”

Remember Mother Died

Author:Barbara Hutton

“Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.”

Children Mother Given Blood Arms Smell Strikes Wounds Arrows

Book:On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

Source: On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

“I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.”

Persons Mother Heard Physicist Rotten

Author:Sonia Manzano

“You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major force in their whole lives. You need to do the job adequately and as best you can, and then provide them with independence from you. You have to give them enough so that they won't need you anymore.”

World Want Needs Giving Children Enough Whole Jobs Mother Force Majors Independence Whole Life Your Children Need You

Author:Josephine Humphreys

“claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.”

Men Should Children Long Important Ideas Used Mother Values Fun Natural Roles Should Have Claims Notion Gender Traditional Sexism Inherent Innate Gender Roles

Author:Jessica Valenti

“I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body.”

Body Remember Mother Born Rivers Connected

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?”

Should Mother Wife Compromise Should I Wives And Mothers

Author:Chanda Kochhar

“When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?”

People Ifs Humans Children Important Enough Law Lying Mother Human Beings Behinds Destiny Rights Wall Conscience Fundamentals Pregnancy Abdomen

Author:Bob Dornan

“Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.”

Children Mother Father Responsibility Expression Our Children Affection Your Children Love And Affection Expressions Of Love

Author:Howard W. Hunter

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