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“[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.”

Want Children Mother Father Names Activism Glad Graves Digging Mother And Father Unicef

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.”

“I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."”

People Looks Children Stills Bigs Care Kids Mother Father Parent Love You Birth Bases Take Care Bunch Contact Hopefully Adoption Day To Day Take Care Of Me Birth Mother Open Adoption

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.”

Children Book Wanted Mother Passion Reading Share My Children My Passion

Author:Aerin Lauder

“The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd, The child is born by many a pang endear'd And now the mother's ear has caught his cry; O grant the cherub to her asking eye! He comes--she clasps him. To her bosom press'd He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.”

Children Moments Eye Mother Wish Born Hours Cry Drink Ears Asking Presses Caught Grants Bosoms Infancy Cherubs

Author:Samuel Rogers

“Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.”

Children Littles Mother Sleep Rooms Air Scene Findings Our Children Errors Faults Your Children Sunshine Surroundings Confinement Good Nature Scolding Fault Finding

Author:Herbert Spencer

“The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.”

Children Mother Speech Manners Inclination

Author:Herbert Spencer

“There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.”

Children Long Reason Mother Hate Independent Endure Mother And Child

Book:The Iron Woman

Source: The Iron Woman

“[The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the state will use . . . funds for programs to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, to promote adoption, to establish and operate children's group homes, to establish and operate residential group homes for unwed mothers, or for any purpose the state deems appropriate. None of the taxpayer funds may be used for abortion services or abortion counseling.”

May Children States Use Home Used Mother Purpose Groups Republican Offers Program Abortion Appropriate Agendas Fund Pregnancy Adoption Renewal Taxpayers Reducing Counseling Wedlock

Author:Newt Gingrich

“My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.”

Thinking Children Seems Mother Delicate

Book:Traits of American Life

Source: Traits of American Life

“Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who are assured of good care and a sound education that will enable them to face the challenges of a changing world.”

World Giving Children Country Care Faces Mother Sound Challenges Lines Birth Healthy Developing Assured Giving Birth Indicators Healthy Children

Book:Letters From Burma:

Source: Letters From Burma:

“Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Time Force Memories Sleep Behinds Known Events Movement Return Garden Brilliant Mourning Prophecy Reconciliation Spine Ribs Expulsion

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a nation, our brains are running out the other end of our power right now.”

Children Ends Hands Bigs Running Used Mother Nations Brain Boys Power Heard Right Now Sticks

Author:Jane Jacobs

“She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their new-born child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer. Perhaps they are right, and they can believe that the rare quality they glimpsed in the child is active in the burdened adult.”

People World Believe Children Ends Mother Born Half Quality Forever Son Daughter Adults Weight Burden Active Carrie Bores Redeemer Son And Daughter Wronged

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.”

“Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her.”

Needs Firsts Children Use Able Mother Taken Week Months Understood Narcissistic

Book:Prisoners of Childhood

Source: Prisoners of Childhood

“[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide?”

Knows Children Said Two Mother Restaurants Unruly Infanticide

Author:Joan Crawford

“All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.”

Heart Kind Children Earth Mother Desert Absent Desolation Only Child Kind Heart

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

“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

“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

“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.”

“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

“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

“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

“[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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.”

World Needs Years Children Said Mother Wife Information Our Children Your Children Wives And Mothers

Author:Beck

“The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.”

Men Way Children Ends Mother Wife Birth Husband Conflict Stress Including Shock Exhausted Husband And Wife Unprecedented Drained Birth Of A Child

Book:A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

Source: A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation

“My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.”

Children Ideas Done Mother Father Sacrifice Married

Book:Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

Source: Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

“Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.”

Men May Children Done Mother Turns Nature Environment

Book:The Stone Field

Source: The Stone Field

“There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought.”

Ifs Children Real Play Mother Imagination Possibility Limits Real You

Book:Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

Source: Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

“While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.”

Children Feelings Mother Pages Organized This Day Strongest Associates Lullaby

Author:Masiela Lusha

“Formal education in British India was remarkable for its lack of connection with its Indian environment. Like the African persuaded to cover his nakedness with a Mother Hubbard, we wore mental Mother Hubbards, and they were often a sad fit. Our textbooks had been compiled by Englishmen for English children, of whom there were none in my school and few in any school in India.”

Children School Mother Environment Fit Connections India British Indian Remarkable Formal Imperialism Englishmen Textbooks Formal Education

Book:From fear set free

Source: From fear set free

“Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.”

Children Seems Mother

Author:Megan Fox

“Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if they have any intention of leaving their side in their early years. . . . Children don't need parents' full-time attendance or attention at any stage of their development. Many people will help take care of their needs, depending on who their parents are and how they chose to fulfill their roles.”

People Ifs Needs Should Years Children Helping Care Today Mother Parent Sides Attention Roles Stage Development Intention Males Leaving Take Care Experts Attendance

Author:Stella Chess

“Not many people know this about me, but I'm a natural blonde. My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child, as I loved the look then. So I'm basically a natural blonde.”

People Knows Looks Kind Children Light Mother Natural Dark Hair Blonde

Author:Angelina Jolie

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