“Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.” IfsNeedsMotherCultureWomenChallengesResponsibilityAcceptingConditionsDaughterVictimMalesOppressionAppropriateWoundedTaking ResponsibilityDominanceGodlikeSocializingPrimacyMale Dominance Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.” MenMotherConditionsAverageDefinedHousewifeSingle Mother Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!” MotherPoorLordConditionsTomorrow Book:Joan of Arc: Self Portrait Source: Joan of Arc: Self Portrait
“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.” IfsFactsPoliticalLife IsMotherSocialCommonResponsibilityMoralConditionsCenturyIgnorancePleaseHopelessBetrayUrbanHollowTwentieth CenturyMockeryMoral ResponsibilityCommon Life Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“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.” HumansHeartChildrenMadeMotherSufferingConditionsDivineCapableDepthProofCapabilityOrgansTendernessHuman HeartChordsExquisite Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.” KnowsMenWorldMayHas BeensMotherBornBrainFireBloodConditionsStudentsGeniusHarmonySatisfiedPleasantGreat MenRemarkableMakersVirtuousElectricCommonplaceWildnessDomesticityNatal Author:Gertrude Atherton
“I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.” ChildrenUsedMotherMiddleConditionsReverseNegotiatingMiddle Child Author:Leeza Gibbons
“In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this.Christ himself (i.e. whoever is meant by this name in this passage) callously disowns his mother and his brethren (Luke VIII, 19). And he repeatedly makes discipleship contingent on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral!Is the magical tradition less rigid?Not on your life!” MenFirstsMotherFatherNamesChristConditionsTraditionCirclesTiesFuneralPassagesDiscipleshipBrethrenLukeRenunciationFamily Ties Author:Aleister Crowley
“The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that, so much else followed: where they would live, in what sort of conditions, whether they would be happy or sad or, so often, a bit of both. There were roles and there were rules.” Would BeMotherBitsWomenDecisionRolesGenerationsConditions Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud