“I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.” MenMotherSeaSweetLoversKissing Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne
“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.” IfsThinkingTryingLooksLittlesLongDoneChristianMotherChristianityHonestSeriousLoversTruth IsSixJewBuddhistEveningGood FriendEightyBuddyLook At YourselfGood MotherHmmGood LoveSerious BusinessGood LoversGood Buddhist Author:Maya Angelou
“Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.” MotherSexBrainWifeFashionLoversCease Author:Honore de Balzac
“Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.” MenWellsSelfWholeMotherArtistFatherTeacherWifeTeachingLoversHusbandScholarEarningEarning Money Book:Myself Source: Myself
“Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.” SpiritMotherArtistFallEnemyTeacherWifeLandLoversViolentMatesNo Friends Book:Myself Source: Myself
“I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.” MenLooksSoulEyeMotherFoundFatherGrowsYouthLoversMouthsBonesFleshTalesMy SoulFairyOld ManCategoriesFairy TaleFoldsCrackedFragmented Author:Jennifer Stone
“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.” FirstsTwoLightMightHappinessJoyMotherBornAcceptingBabyMomLoversLaughterAngelSmileEnvyPregnancyFunny InspirationalBabeBeing A MomEnviedMother's LoveMy AngelGreatest MomBeautiful PregnancyEnvy And SuccessSentimental MotherI Love Being A MomInspirational PregnancyLove My MomFirst Pregnancy Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton