“With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.” FirstsChildrenTwoMotherSawsExerciseFirst TimeProgramMy FamilyDoctorsWeightMeetingsSizePortionsPeersCounselingBurgersWatchersWeight WatchersPortion Sizes Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.” TwoEnoughPlayMotherStrongRolesWifeDutyEasierExerciseAuthorityContraryObligationStrong EnoughWidowsGood MotherGood Wife Author:Honore de Balzac
“When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.” GivingBelieveKindMayLittlesArtI CanBookSeemsRememberYoungMotherWishBitsNaturalAttentionTakenStrangeExerciseLogicDiscriminationLogicalMicroscopesSurpassingBotany Author:William Stanley Jevons
“Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.” ShouldMindFirstsChildrenBodyEarthMotherWalksEducationEffectsOughtBirthExerciseQuietWorshipPlantCarefulDietsTemplesBe CarefulPrescriptionsOffspringLegislators Book:Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens
“By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.” PeopleWorldKindHas BeensMotherImaginationHellAmountExerciseWeightAcceptedShouldersGenerousLenient Author:Maya Angelou