Best mother & good-mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other.”

Way Needs Children Spirit Mother Energy Strong Lines Our Lives Fierce Protective Good Mother

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddyit's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.”

“France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.”

Needs Mother France Regeneration Good Mother

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“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.”

Two Enough Play Mother Strong Roles Wife Duty Easier Exercise Authority Contrary Obligation Strong Enough Widows Good Mother Good Wife

Author:Honore de Balzac

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.”

“Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.”

Mother Habit Good Mother

Book:On the Heights

Source: On the Heights

“The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.”

Men Want Should Young Mother Marriage Picks Daughter Young Man Good Mother

Author:J. Ogden Armour

“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.”

Kind Enough Helping Mother Father Mom Good Mother

Book:Nigger

Source: Nigger

“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.”

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Author:Susan J. Douglas

“It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or the 'good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.”

Children Home Earth Used Lying Mother Girl Stuff Horrible Used To Be Pie Baking Good Girl Good Mother Bad Girl Bad Mother

Author:Annette Bening

“I think I was raised by a really good mother.”

Thinking Mother Raised Good Mother

Author:Dean Winters

“I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.”

Mother Lines Raised Strict Good Mother

Author:Alexa Vega

“Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.”

Children Mother Religious Accepting Feet Casts Bless Virgin Mary Good Mother Blessed Mother

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“I think we all want to be Gisele Bündchen. Whether it inspires. Not only for her beauty. Successful she is, is a businesswoman, is an activist, a good mother is a strong woman and a good example to all the powerful women . Everybody wants to know what she does or says, rather than what she wears.”

Thinking Knows Want Doe Mother Strong Powerful Successful Example Inspire Activist Strong Women Powerful Women Good Examples Her Beauty Good Mother

Author:Erin Heatherton

“The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.”

Giving Mother Good Mother

Author:George Herbert

“Many women assume they can't be good mothers and have challenging careers at the same time, so they might give up trying to do both as they get to a crucial point in their career. Although it can be hard at times, it's important for women to recognize the benefits of working outside the home.”

Giving Trying Important Hard Home Might Mother Challenges Careers Giving Up Benefits Assuming Work Out Be Good Crucial Good Mother

Author:Susan Wojcicki

“The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give to little ortoo much, is in essence an attempt to be the ideal child--well behaved and dutiful--of one's own parents. But as a result of these efforts the needs of the child go unnoticed. I cannot listen to my child with empathy if I am inwardly preoccupied with being a good mother; I cannot be open to what she is telling me.”

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Author:Alice Miller

“Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.”

Source: Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power

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