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“There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and their careers. If they take their careers seriously, they are labeled as bad mothers. If they spend time with their children, they are labeled as people who can't be serious about careers outside the home. This is a sexist double standard. No such guilt trip is imposed on men, who are generally not forced to choose between their children and their jobs.”

“To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.”

“So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?”

Ifs Thinking Should Said Mother Marriage Break Four Married Yeah Hey Hips Settling Thirty Desperate Mum Eighty Settling Down

Author:Sue Margolis

“When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human being and that the destiny of a preborn child lies with the private conscience of the mother, we are essentially telling society that life itself is not important enough to be called an inalienable right. If life itself is not the most fundamental of all rights, then what is?”

People Ifs Humans Children Important Enough Law Lying Mother Human Beings Behinds Destiny Rights Wall Conscience Fundamentals Pregnancy Abdomen

Author:Bob Dornan

“What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.”

Ifs Writing Mean Doe Made Sometimes Moments Used Mother Girl White Laughing Alive Wife Cry Tears Tough Decided Nuclear Tragic Scratches Messy Antigone Writing Poems Nuclear Families

Author:Juliana Spahr

“I hate Mother's Day. If anything, it's an affront to all women who think full-time moms have never worked a day in their lives. Which reminds me of a good joke: What do you call an angry feminist on Mother's Day? You don't.”

Ifs Thinking Mother Hate Mom Jokes I Hate Angry Feminist Mothers Day Affront Full Time Mom

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.”

Ifs Thinking Age Mother Numbers Century Healthy Planning Quarters

Author:Hugh Hefner

“The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."”

Ifs Thinking World Wells Mother Responsibility Taught Like You Percent Faults

Author:Byron Katie

“There is almost no limit to the possibilities of the imagination, but to get the full power of it, one must trust one's imagination. If you say to yourself constantly, as the mother says to the child, 'But this is only play; this is not real,' you never can make real the things you have created in thought.”

Ifs Children Real Play Mother Imagination Possibility Limits Real You

Book:Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

Source: Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side

“We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.”

Ifs Thinking World Doe Matter Mother Deals Silence Noisy

Book:A Right to Be Merry

Source: A Right to Be Merry

“My mother taught me this trick: if you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning, for example homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework homework, see? Nothing. Our existence she said is the same way. You watch the sunset too often it just becomes 6 pm you make the same mistake over and over you stop calling it a mistake. If you just wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up one day you'll forget why.”

Ifs Way Said Mother Loses Forget Existence Mistake Watches Example Taught Calling One Day Wake Up Tricks Repeats Sunset Over You Routine Homework Sameness Monotony Same Mistakes Pms

Author:Phil Kay

“Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if they have any intention of leaving their side in their early years. . . . Children don't need parents' full-time attendance or attention at any stage of their development. Many people will help take care of their needs, depending on who their parents are and how they chose to fulfill their roles.”

People Ifs Needs Should Years Children Helping Care Today Mother Parent Sides Attention Roles Stage Development Intention Males Leaving Take Care Experts Attendance

Author:Stella Chess

“I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'”

Ifs Mind I Can Wanted Mother Successful Female Empowerment Stronger Female Empowerment Of My Mind Being A Mother

Author:Nicki Minaj

“I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.”

Ifs Trying Mother Advice Politician Interviews Wiser Say Anything Private Life Savvy

Author:Wesley Snipes

“If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.”

Ifs Mother Daughter Ovens

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.”

Ifs Children Jobs Mother Can Do Lines Half Wise Intelligent Very Happy Very Wise

Author:Brandon Lee

“My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.”

Ifs Firsts Character Kids Jobs Faces Mother Voice Careers Too Much Boxes Actresses Video Cartoon Cartoon Character

Author:Joan Cusack

“I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But I did bring to my life some of my father, who was very controlling and very remote. I was working a lot. I wasn't there enough.”

Ifs Feels Stills Enough Mother Break Good Enough

Author:Mary Tyler Moore

“The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor, he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.”

Ifs Want Firsts Said Jobs Mother Actors Father Rejection Instruction Auditions

Author:Michele Lee

“Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.”

People Ifs Want Needs Young Mother Edges

Author:Dawn French

“All men are alike. If you ask any American man, 'How are you?' he'll answer 'Fine,' even if his mother just had a heart attack.”

Ifs Men Heart Mother Asks Answers Fine Heart Attack

Author:Joan Hackett

“Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mothers loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.”

Ifs Believe Mother Loss Pay Attention Plans Miracle Absolutes Inspired Proof Pay Attention Believe In God Surviving

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.”

Ifs Doe Mother Wish Christ Religious Brother Mary Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Immaculate

Author:Maximilian Kolbe

“If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should assert that He passed through the Virgin as through a channel, and was not at once divinely and humanly formed in her (divinely, because without the intervention of a man; humanly, because in accordance with the laws of gestation), he is in like manner godless.”

Ifs Men Should Believe Doe Law Mother Religious Holy Mary Virgins Intervention Virgin Mary Blessed Mother Gestation Holy Mary

Author:Gregory of Nazianzus

“If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.”

Ifs Feels Mother Jesus Religious Prayer Simple Please Mary Virgin Mary Blessed Mother

Author:Mother Teresa

“If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.”

Ifs Men Two Mother Growth Education Teacher Progress Development India Contribution Two Things Great Men Biographies

Author:Narendra Modi

“If anyone does not in accord with the Holy Fathers acknowledge the holy and ever virgin and immaculate Mary was really and truly the Mother of God, inasmuch as she, in the fullness of time,and without seed, conceived by the Holy Spirit, God in the Word Himself, who before all time was born of God the Father, and without loss of integrity brought Him forth, and after His birth preserved her virginity inviolate, let him be condemned.”

Ifs Doe Spirit Mother Father Born Religious Loss Birth Integrity Holy Seeds All Time Acknowledge Holy Spirit Mary Virgins Fullness Accord Virginity Virgin Mary Immaculate

Author:Pope Martin I

“Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?”

Ifs Men Firsts Littles Reason Earth Form Mother Asks Fields Weak Harder Stronger Blind Weed Shade Oaks Mother Earth Satellites Presumptuous

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

“I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.”

Ifs Running Kids Mother Inspiring Heels Amazed Mothers Day High Heels

Author:Claudia Schiffer

“Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.”

“The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.”

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.”

People Ifs Way Want Two Problem Mother Father Students Treats Treated Golden Live By Golden Rule Youngsters Mother And Father Mistreat

Author:Monte Irvin

“I was brought up Catholic and we show my mom, my mother, my sister and then I take pains to explain on camera, that there were years after that where I wasn't really religious. I certainly wasn't a Catholic anymore, but I still lived with some mythical man in my head. I didn't really put a name to a face, but I just knew that if I was in trouble or scared I would go, 'Oh God, please help me get out of this one.'”

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Author:Bill Maher

“My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.”

Ifs Said Age Mother Sound Pay Attention Nice Pay Attention

Author:Cher

“Being on TV in front of people is a lot different than sitting in a dark room with a microphone. When I had my radio show, I was on four hours a day for 20-something years. If you put a live microphone in front of Mother Teresa for that amount of time, she'd piss somebody off.”

People Ifs Years Different Shows Mother Hours Dark Rooms Four Fronts Tvs Amount Sitting Radio Microphones Teresa Dark Room

Author:Wendy Williams

“Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with.”

People Ifs Heart Kind Persons Seems Mother Appeals Chickens Valentine Valentine's Day Been In Love

Author:John Waters

“My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.”

“I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.”

Ifs Mother Danger Boxes Abortion Questionnaires

Author:Michael Baumgartner

“Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. Not paying taxes is against the law. If you don't pay your taxes, you'll be fined. If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed. If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot. ... Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, 'Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?'”

Ifs Trying Government Remember Law Mother Asks Results Pay Fine Taxes Gun Shots Jail Gray Revenue Paying Taxes

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.”

Ifs Problem Mother Guy Community Masters Broken Dad Grades Mechanic Magician That Guy Our Community Carpenter Masons Plumber Eighth Grade Electrician Dirty Jobs

Author:Mike Rowe

“If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.”

Ifs Men World Firsts Mean Children Persons Stills Feelings Eye Mother Seeing Creator Giants Through The Eyes Seeing The World Eyes Of A Child Through The Eyes Of A Child

Author:Anais Nin

“Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.”

Ifs World Stills Whole Mother Father Rocks Okay Whole World Throwing Throwing Rocks

Author:Jojo Moyes

“The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.”

Ifs Knows World Children Two Whole Mother Rocks Okay Whole World Throwing Rooted Throwing Rocks

Author:Jojo Moyes

“It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Should Seems Care Kids Used Mother Guy Lost Fun Loses Too Much Trouble Crazy Type Excuse Damn Yellow Gloves No Excuses Caring Too Much

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."”

Source: The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House

“The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.”

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“"Well," said my aunt, "this is his boy - his son. He would be as like his father as it's possible to be, if he was not so like his mother, too."”

Ifs Wells Said Would Be Funny Mother Father Boys Son Humorous Aunt Well Said

Book:The Works of Charles Dickens

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens

“On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?”

Ifs Men Should Children Hands Seems Mother Father Atheism Design Defeat Positive Atheism Criminals Insane Idiot Breasts Thank God Idiotic

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Mother Language Natural Careers Teach Areas Chosen Performers Fascinated Genes Grandfather Inheritance Linguistics

Author:George Carlin

“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

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