“A Church without women is like the college of the Apostles without Mary... Our Lady is more important than the Apostles! She is more important! The Church is feminine. She is Church, she is bride, she is mother.” ImportantWould BeMotherChristChurchCollegeFeminineMarySpouseApostlesApostolic Author:Pope Francis
“It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.” ThinkingWritingBelieveWellsHardMotherNightGamesInterestImaginationCareersCollegeSeriousPursuitMy SisterEvery NightMake BelievePlaying Make Believe Author:Sara Zarr
“My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.” WorldAgeYoungMotherClassChildhoodCollegeDegreesTheatreExposedYoung AgeCollege DegreePlaywriting Author:Valorie Curry
“I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.” SchoolMotherCollegeDaughterHigh SchoolGradesSophomore Author:Thomas Friedman
“To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.” WholeMotherCollegeWillingSonMonthsUniversityWhole LifeObligationAcknowledgeIdleFourteenRenounceOxford Author:Edward Gibbon
“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.” WorldLittlesSelfFactsMotherReadingSpaceBoysGoneToo MuchCollegeSonPrayingBlessingLettersFilledWideBackgroundsShirtsButtonsAttendingMaternityOld Letters Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.” KindFeelingsSchoolMotherThreeBehindsClassTroubleStudentsCollegeHugeMomAmountHigh SchoolGradesSingle MomThree Sisters Author:Louis C. K.
“Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case - which didn't exactly fill me with confidence.” IfsCountrySchoolMotherFallCasesStudyCollegeDramaLuckyDegreesDown AndUniversityFall BackBirmingham Author:Tamsin Greig
“I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.” MenSchoolYoungMotherCultureFatherLanguageSecretCollegeMetsYoung ManFascinatedGraduatesBusinessmanTokyoGraduate SchoolGeisha Author:Arthur Golden
“I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'” IfsMenYearsMeanHas BeensSaidJobsMotherLiteratureGoneCollegeSummerOld ManFlashJuniorsAugustJunior Year Author:Chris Matthews
“My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.” Would BeMotherWalksAcceptingFateCollegeDoctorsWestDefeatFighterChampionTennisSinglesCripplesPolio Author:Uzo Aduba
“When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like Madea, and Night, Mother, and Sam Shepard, and all that kind of stuff. Thats what I really wanted to do.” KindWantedMotherNightStuffGoalStageNew YorkCollegeMovedActressesDramaticMother NightMadea Author:Rachael Harris
“My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.” ThinkingKnowsMadeWantedMotherPoorCollegeBlueBottomImpressionSuitsBrandsGoing AwayPantsSkinnyBrand NewPowderPeg Author:Tom Heinsohn