“Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.” GivingMotherBornMonthsGive MeSavedPoundsEighteenAuschwitz Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation” GivingMotherNationsBirthPromiseGive MeEducatedCivilized Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.” ThinkingGivingChildrenDoeBookMotherCreativityGive MeSaved Author:David Lynch
“For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.” GivingMotherWorryGive MeFancyNew Mother Author:Shirley Jackson
“in my mother's ferocious striving to give me 'everything,' she had never considered that giving me 'everything' would make me (1) different (from her), and (2) guilty (about what I got). Different and Guilty are not the stuff on which comradeship is built.” GivingDifferentMotherStuffBuiltGive MeStriveGuiltyComradeship Author:Betty Rollin
“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.” WayWantGivingChildrenCountryEnoughMotherGamesSoundFoodGive MeCookingRaisedBottomBreadMy ChildrenDesperateCulinaryStaffPotatoesBarrelsRelishPorkBread And ButterPork Barrel Author:James F. Cooper
“I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.” GivingChildrenLittlesMotherFeltAudienceGive MeMy ChildrenCheatedI CheatedLove My Children Author:Eleanor Roosevelt