“My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.” ChildrenMotherHouseBuiltKitchenFocal Point Author:Gail Simmons
“When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too.” MenWellsMadeHandsRunningUsedMotherBornOfficeBuiltClaimsEvery ManUsed To BePublic LifeCabinsPublic OfficeLog Cabins Author:William J. Clinton
“in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her), and (2) guilty (about what I got). Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.” GivingDifferentMotherStuffBuiltGive MeStriveGuiltyComradeship Author:Betty Rollin
“Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.” WorldWayWritingYearsTwoSelfLastsMotherHalfBuiltIllTwo YearsSexismCakeBalancedBeing A MotherScoldedIll TemperedBalanced Relationship Author:Margaret Mead