“The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.” ChristianMotherClearVicesMythologyTheologyHypocrisyBigotryCantDiscouragingHeathenAbomination Author:Theodore Parker
“How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.” ChildrenMotherThoughtfulHypocrisyCowsThievesMerchantsDupesSwindlers Author:Honore de Balzac
“What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.” ThinkingWantMotherMy OwnObjectsHypocrisyWant MeHe Wants Me Author:Margaret Deland
“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.” ShouldLooksKindFactsMotherGirlSocialCausesBirthDiseaseShadowAcknowledgeHypocrisyEnlightenedFacts Of LifeBirth ControlImpunityUnmarried Book:A Matter of Life and Death Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!” MenMotherSpeakDoubtMen And WomenHypocrisyHypocriteDoubt Me Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967 Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967