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“[On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out of her new blouse.”

Littles Made Mother Careers Six Hats Blouses

“Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.”

Sometimes Mother My Own Inspiring Cutting Mom Daughter Tables Breakfast Mothers Day Smack

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.”

Matter Mother Parent Worst Son No Matter What Curse Wartime

Author:Slavenka Drakulic

“Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.”

Men Love Kind Children Two Mother Interest Creatures Painful Vain Excitement Delusion Providence Kinds Of Love

Author:Octave Feuillet

“Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.”

Law Mother Common Aim Certainty Mischief Repose Common Law

Author:Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

“When I consider all the circumstances detailed above respecting the Pans, I cannot help believing that, under the mythos, a doctrine or history of a sect is concealed. Cunti, the wife of Pandu (du or God, Pan), wife of the generative power, mother of the Pandavas or devas, daughter of Sura or Syra the Sun Pandæa only daughter of Cristna or the Sun Pandion, who had by Medea a son called Medus, the king of the Medes, who had a cousin, the famous Perseus surely all this is very mythological an historical parable!”

Believe Helping Mother Sun Wife Son Kings Circumstances Daughter Historical Doctrine Cousin Concealed Sects Parables Medea Perseus Only Daughter

Book:Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis : Or, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions

Source: Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis : Or, An Inquiry Into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions

“We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!”

Should Kind Law Mother Names Parent Perfect Female Sacred Titles Profane

Book:The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition

“Talking about your home town is like talking about your own mother.”

Home Mother Talking Towns Home Town

Author:Maureen Daly

“Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.”

Mind Mother Girl Women

Author:Karen Kijewski

“[After her 18-day disappearance in 1974:] I love my husband very, very much, but he didn't ask me when he ran for mayor and he didn't consult me about running for governor. It would be nice to be asked. ... You know, I've been my mother's daughter, my father's daughter, the wife of my husband, the mother of my six children, and grandmother to my eleven grandchildren, but I have never been me. But I am now because I went away. I am a changed woman.”

“Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?”

Should Mother Father Love Is Sacred Dues Mother Love

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

Source: The garden of a commuter's wife

“Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.”

Children Hands Mother Roles Childhood Taught Dad Trade Apprenticeship

Author:Carol Bly

“my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.”

Trying Mother Becoming Clothes

Book:Allegra Maud Goldman

Source: Allegra Maud Goldman

“Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.”

Men Death Mother Differences Sleep Accepting Class Struggle Kings Men And Women Breathing Spells Twins Sheets Pathetic Beggar Majestic Castes

Book:Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

Source: Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

“All men are alike. If you ask any American man, 'How are you?' he'll answer 'Fine,' even if his mother just had a heart attack.”

Ifs Men Heart Mother Asks Answers Fine Heart Attack

Author:Joan Hackett

“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”

Long Stills Seems Spirit Mother Father Term Loss Grief Half Century Deny Graves Buried Mourn Stirring Half A Century

Author:Eileen Simpson

“Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.”

Way Children Feelings Mother Easy Alive Emotional Burden Damage Absent Orphan Knots Filial

Author:Eileen Simpson

“It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.”

Country Young Mother Girl Growing Up Growing Huge Listening Heavy Metals Fanatics Nelson Heavy Metal Indigo

Author:Tig Notaro

“Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mothers loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.”

Ifs Believe Mother Loss Pay Attention Plans Miracle Absolutes Inspired Proof Pay Attention Believe In God Surviving

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.”

Bigs Christian Mother Church Grew Grew Up Sunday Exposure Choir Midwest

Author:Michael McMillian

“My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.”

People Mother Cooking Dinner Thirty Kitchen Grandmother Farms Typical My Grandmother Recipes

Book:If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

Source: If I Knew it Was Going to Be This Much Fun, I Would Have Become a Grandparent First

“My mother's my biggest supporter.”

Mother Supporter

Author:Vinny Guadagnino

“I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.”

Light Mother Father House Lost Tree Grew Grew Up Singing Tiny Golden Dawn Piano Palestinian Showers Chords House Music Golden Light Tiny Houses

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”

“I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.”

Children Used Mother Middle Conditions Reverse Negotiating Middle Child

Author:Leeza Gibbons

“I was named after my mother's maiden name.”

Mother Names Maidens Maiden Names

Author:Sprague Grayden

“I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.”

Mother Workers Campaigns

Author:Tim Matheson

“The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.”

Thinking Knows Needs Lasts Lying Mother Guy Know How Advice Honesty Policy Drunk Being The Best Uncles

Author:Adam DeVine

“The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was CATS, for my birthday.”

Shows Mother Growing Up Growing Cat Take Me My Birthday

Author:Tammy Blanchard

“I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.”

Kind Mother Artist Certain Father Access Artistic Entertainers Milton Nightclubs Smitten Sids Bookmakers

Author:Lainie Kazan

“I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.”

Mother Lines Raised Strict Good Mother

Author:Alexa Vega

“I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.”

Wells Action Used Mother Numbers Violent Scare Syndromes Tics Tourettes

Author:Dash Mihok

“Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.”

Mother Suffering Race Effects Truth Is Prejudice Profound Reaching Minorities Contests Mothers Day Sentimentality Stripping Stripping Away Best American

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.”

Mother Language Tongue Indian Hindi Bengali Mother Tongue

Author:Shreya Ghoshal

“I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.”

Mother Television Casts Compassionate

Author:Michael Learned

“A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the edge of the land and sea, I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition. High tide. Low tide. It is the sea's reach and retreat that reminds me we have been human for only a very short time.”

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.”

Enough Mother Religious Difficulty Trials Mary Glances Recourse Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Mother Mary

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.”

Ifs Doe Mother Wish Christ Religious Brother Mary Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Immaculate

Author:Maximilian Kolbe

“If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should assert that He passed through the Virgin as through a channel, and was not at once divinely and humanly formed in her (divinely, because without the intervention of a man; humanly, because in accordance with the laws of gestation), he is in like manner godless.”

Ifs Men Should Believe Doe Law Mother Religious Holy Mary Virgins Intervention Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Gestation Holy Mary

Author:Gregory of Nazianzus

“Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.”

Children Mother Religious Accepting Feet Casts Bless Virgin Mary Good Mother Blessed Mother

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“All the sins of your life seem to be rising up against you. Don't give up hope! On the contrary, call your holy mother Mary, with the faith and abandonment of a child. She will bring peace to your soul.”

“The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.”

Reason Today Mother Christ Religious Reason Why Virgin Mary Blessed Mother

Author:John Henry Newman

“There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.”

Giving Able Mother Religious Mystery Danger Blessed Thanks Intimacy Sufficient Trinity Fathom Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Exaggerating

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son.”

Way Giving Mother Jesus Goal Religious Son Honour Virgin Mary Blessed Mother

Book:True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort

Source: True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort

“May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.”

May Spirit Mother Jesus Religious Son Holy Blessing Heavenly Obtaining Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Always Smile

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul.”

Heart Soul Mother Religious Grief Heavenly Boundless Virgin Mary Sorrowful Blessed Mother

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.”

Mother Religious Sea Eternal Heavenly Shore Virgin Mary Splendour Blessed Mother

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.”

Ifs Feels Mother Jesus Religious Prayer Simple Please Mary Virgin Mary Blessed Mother

Author:Mother Teresa

“In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.”

Firsts Soul Mother Jesus Religious Holy My Soul Heavenly Communion Altars Fusion Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Holy Communion

Author:Therese of Lisieux

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