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“Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.”

Men Wells May Doe Made Mother Asks Destiny Discovery Chemicals Engineers Cashmere

Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“[On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out of her new blouse.”

Littles Made Mother Careers Six Hats Blouses

Author:Lilly Dache

“My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college. We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants - you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.”

Thinking Knows Made Wanted Mother Poor College Blue Bottom Impression Suits Brands Going Away Pants Skinny Brand New Powder Peg

Author:Tom Heinsohn

“My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.”

Made Mother Bits Hated Sensible Strict

Author:Mark Ronson

“The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.”

Want Made Stills Mother Artist Lessons Victim Feminist Exclusive Fragility

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten.”

Littles Made Stills Mother Names Bags Lunch Kindergarten Towels

Author:Maira Kalman

“We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.”

“The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.”

Firsts Made Book Mother Novel Ready Adults Decided Blue Impression Lasting Castles Lucy Lasting Impressions

Author:Hallie Ephron

“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

“Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.”

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.”

Firsts Children Made Dream Mother Party Mistake Scientist Expected Rockets Cocktails Hopes And Dreams Cocktail Parties Neurosurgeons Designated Hitter

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.”

Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900

“Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. .. . If our mother made us feel secure and proud in our masculinity, then we want to find that again in our wife. If we are really comfortable with our mother, we can even marry a woman who is a friend rather than an adversary, and form a true partnership.”

Ifs Want Feels Made Enough Form Mother Fall Ability Wife Proud Comfort Comfortable Falling In Love Secure Partnership Masculinity Femininity Adversaries

Author:Frank Pittman

“oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won't know the difference and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy”

Ifs Knows Littles Doe Made Mother Differences Picks Movie Sheer Gravy

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”

“Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.”

Ifs Made Use Mother Lifetime Saint Confession Pope Sacraments Reconciliation Calcutta Teresa John Paul John Paul Ii Pope John Paul

Author:Donald Wuerl