“If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.” IfsMotherFatherClassMiddleMy FamilyMiddle ClassMother And Father Author:Dave Van Ronk
“Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.” IfsLongMotherMiddleClimateTendenciesAustraliaConsumption Book:An autobiography Source: An autobiography
“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.” ChildrenTwoSchoolTogetherMotherFightingFatherLevelsClassMiddleBrotherGrewGrew UpMy FamilySevenGradesMiddle ClassMiddle Class FamilyTwo Sisters Author:Muhammad Yunus
“I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.” MotherFatherClassWonderfulMiddleWesternMiddle ClassSalesmanPianistWonderful Family Author:Charles Kimbrough
“Prime Minister Golda Meir said that the Middle East will see peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. On behalf of many Arab mothers, this is one mother who not only loves her children, but also loves Israel's children.” ChildrenSaidMotherHateLove IsMiddleIsraelEastMinistersPrimeMiddle EastPrime MinisterBehalfOnly Love Author:Nonie Darwish
“[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.” PeopleIfsMenShouldChildrenCareMotherFatherCommunityAnswersMiddleShould HaveResponsibleCommentBoresLooking GoodMiddle AgedChild Care Author:Margaret Mead
“My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.” WayAgeActionMotherMiddleSurpriseDefeatBest WayPullingMiddle AgesAmbivalenceNumbingCartwheels Author:Gail Sheehy
“Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.” IfsMotherMiddleConversationArgumentTalk To Me Book:The Kitchen God's Wife Source: The Kitchen God's Wife
“I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.” ChildrenUsedMotherMiddleConditionsReverseNegotiatingMiddle Child Author:Leeza Gibbons
“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.” IfsNeedsGivingShouldTryingKidsMotherToo MuchMiddleTearsPoetDamnMeatFeedingBullyPotatoesMiddle AgedDrippingDon't Give A DamnCranesI Don't Give A DamnThinnessMeat And Potatoes Author:Frank O'Hara
“When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.” FirstsKindBookMotherReadingSidesMiddleSummerAdultsLibraryListsBoredGradesCopiesFrustratedMidnightSummer Reading Author:Lauren DeStefano
“Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.” PeopleMenWayTryingMotherMiddleRaisedMy Way Author:Donald Dunn
“Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.” YearsMayMotherHalfClassMiddlePolicyPoliticianVoteMajorityRaisedBoxesSensesInstantSeatsVotingChocolateThis DayEntitledMothers DayAbolitionCongressmanPublic PolicyBox Of Chocolates Author:Russell Baker
“I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.” IfsKnowsWantHas BeensCareMotherBlackWhitePoorClassMiddleBallsConstitutionAgreeDon't CareI Don't CareMiddle ClassHungClotheslines Author:Diamanda Galas
“And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.” FeelsUsedMotherClassWifeWonderfulMiddleMovementYouthBreadSupposed To BeMiddle ClassGraciousBakingHousewifeFilthyCookeryHecticWomanlyWives And MothersHostessesMisspent Youth Book:Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
“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.” ChildrenMadeHomeMotherGirlBlackClassBoysWifeMiddleCenturyFlowerClothesDaughterDressesWarmCirclesMiddle ClassItalianArtificialProtectedCoalNineteenth CenturyCottonLaundryMiningWelshMother And ChildBlack GirlMiddle Class FamilySweatshopsArtificial Flowers Author:Stephanie Coontz
“Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.” MenGivingSeemsMotherParentDarkSleepClassWifeMiddleCryFlowerDevelopmentLessonsQuietNormalHundredBlueMiddle ClassOne ManTiedInfantTacticsIsraeliInfancyKenyaCompatibleStreaksHutsBlooming FlowerCaretakersGuatemalaNew Parents Author:Melvin Konner