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“And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!”

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Book:Love Over Scotland

Source: Love Over Scotland

“Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.”

Want Trying Self Mother Father Energy Figures Buddhism Type Discovery Self Discovery Rama Drains Father Figure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.”

Thinking Men Mother Accepting Son Proud Discovery My Son Be Proud Alienation Be A Man Counting Mother And Son Demeaning Womanly

Book:Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.”

Men Wells May Doe Made Mother Asks Destiny Discovery Chemicals Engineers Cashmere

Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson