“The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.” MenWorldMotherBattleMaps Book:Joaquin Miller's Poems Source: Joaquin Miller's Poems
“[On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable?” KindI CanAgeRememberMotherGirlGrowsGrowing UpBattleFlightNervousFourteenEmigration Book:Under My Skin Source: Under My Skin
“when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.” MotherMy OwnBattleMy Own LifeAssertiveness Author:Twyla Tharp
“I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.” MenKindSaidBeautifulFacesMotherBattlePsychologicalScar Author:Nick Nolte
“Mother Teresas detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement.” SeemsTogetherMotherWinningLostCausesTakenBattleAchievementCriticismConversionAccusedDefenselessTeresaLost Cause Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.” MenHumansLongHas BeensMadeHelpingEarthPastMotherFightingLeftHeavenCausesRaceLibertyStruggleDivineBattleCriticismResponsibleLeavingEvery ManDegradationPitifulMale Dominance Book:History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900 Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900