Best mother & ideas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.”

Long Ideas Mother Father Given Hurt Great Gifts Hurting Someone

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.”

Looks Ideas Wanted Mother Clear Honest Color Baby Being Honest Hiding Adoption

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education”

Has Beens Ideas Mother Christianity Modern Motive Faculty Sentiments New Ideas Modern Education

Book:Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics

Source: Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics

“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source: Promise at Dawn

“More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.”

“The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.”

Thinking Mind Children Littles Ideas Mother Father Half Talking Saws Forgotten Neighbor Manifest Destroying Agnostic Here And There Bounty Dead Mother

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.”

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Author:Nancy Friday

“The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.”

“Jeb Bush's brother Neil said that their mother has 'come around' to the idea of Jeb running for president in 2016. Because if there's anything that says you're qualified to be president, it's your own mom saying, 'I guess you could do it.'”

Ifs Said Ideas Running Mother President Brother Mom Qualified

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.”

“The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.”

Ideas Mother Sex Boys No Idea Knees Referring Sex Education

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.”

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Author:Maria Montessori

“The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a man. Brother Kimball quoted a saying of Joseph the Prophet, that he would not worship a God who had not a Father; and I do not know that he would if be had not a mother; the one would be as absurd as the other. If he had a Father, he was made in his likeness. And if he is our Father we are made after his image and likeness.”

Ifs Knows Men Made Ideas Would Be Mother Father Lord Brother Worship Notion Absurd Prophet Mistaken Our Father

Book:The Essential Brigham Young

Source: The Essential Brigham Young

“Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.”

Ideas Facts Mother Sin Ugly Familiar Fancy

Book:Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man

Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man

“Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.”

“claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.”

Men Should Children Long Important Ideas Used Mother Values Fun Natural Roles Should Have Claims Notion Gender Traditional Sexism Inherent Innate Gender Roles

Author:Jessica Valenti

“I had this whole hippie idea of how easy raising a baby would be. How he would just eat and sleep and listen to Mozart, and I could just go on with my life the way it was. I was very wrong. It [being a mother] has taught me to be present and to live inside my body rather than in some out-there fantasy world.”

World Way Ideas Whole Body Would Be Mother Easy Sleep Fantasy Taught Baby Goes On Hippie Being A Mother Fantasy Worlds

Author:Chiara Barzini

“My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.”

Children Ideas Done Mother Father Sacrifice Married

Book:Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

Source: Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim

“I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.”

Ideas Enough Shows Wanted Young Mother Moved No Idea Show Business

Author:Sherilyn Fenn

“My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.”

Ifs World Giving Said Ideas Mother Natural Wonderful Birth Contrary Makeup Rainbow Childbirth Unicorn Hyper Giving Birth Wonderful Places Without Makeup Natural Childbirth

Author:Robin Williams

“Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.”

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Author:Sandra Scarr

“Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that children didn't need them much. Mothers, who might be too soft and sentimental, could even be bad for children's character development. But when men left home during the Industrial Revolution to work elsewhere, women were "needed" at home. The cult of domesticity and motherhood became a virtue that kept women in their place.”

“Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings of any lasting importance for their development is a very recent invention (or insight if you wish).”

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Author:Sandra Scarr

“The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.”

Ifs Needs May Has Beens Art Ideas Done Together Mother Values Imagination Memories Results Industry Originals Invention Originality Engineering Fertile Crank Prevision

Author:Elihu Thomson

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