“I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.” PeopleLooksMeanKidsSchoolMotherArtistSongGreaterPicksStoresGroceriesBeing An ArtistGrocery Stores Author:Faith Evans
“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.” IfsWorldWayLooksDifferentMotherOpportunityWaterNatureChallengesGreaterLandPlanetsPerspectiveShapesMountainResourcesRiversTreatsSacredSpeciesForestsVeinsDeitiesDifferent PerspectiveGroveTimberIrrigation Author:David Suzuki
“The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.” MayStillsMotherFightingFatherExistenceConsciousnessGreaterRiskPossibilityInstinctAliensUnconsciousInjuryRejectsFeminineObscureAmbiguousMemories Dreams Reflections Book:The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Source: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
“Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific.” IfsThinkingChildrenCareMotherMotivationWomenPowerfulCompassionGreaterEssenceEncouragementOur ChildrenWarmthPacificExpanse Author:Louise Burfitt-Dons
“Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.” MotherPassionGrowsGreaterVicesNobleSatisfiedInsatiable Author:Honore de Balzac
“We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.” MotherGreaterDaughterConfusionComplexityAmazement Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
“advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.” ChildrenCareLife IsMotherOpportunityGreaterRightsWomens RightsWorkplaceAvenuesPublic LifeInconsistentHouseworkAdvocatingInsistenceEvery Avenue Author:Mary Frances Berry
“There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.” ImportantMotherFatherNamesLeaderGreaterParenthood Author:Sheri L. Dew