“The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.” Has BeensMotherMoralBloodForgottenFeministGoddessBladesAmbivalenceGreat Mother Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.” CharacterMotherMoralCircumstancesMoralityBehaviorDaughterCommentVirtuousSevereNotableMoral Character Author:Antoine Rivarol
“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.” IfsFactsPoliticalLife IsMotherSocialCommonResponsibilityMoralConditionsCenturyIgnorancePleaseHopelessBetrayUrbanHollowTwentieth CenturyMockeryMoral ResponsibilityCommon Life Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.” MotherSocialMoralWifeRelationFundamentalsCharacteristicsDomesticityWives And MothersHousekeepersSocial RelationsHomemaker Author:R. Heber Newton
“[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had imbibed at his mother's knee.” PeopleMatterMotherMoralAtheismIntellectualPositive AtheismKneesSkeptical Author:Bertrand Russell
“Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy.” MenSometimesStoriesYoungMotherFatherStrongSpaceMoralNovelStruggleTerribleWeakBetrayalUncomfortableYoung ManEncountersSuicidalTerrible ThingsConsumingBleakPhilipNarratorsStrong LovePoignancyConsuming LoveWeak Love Author:Andrew Solomon
“Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers were the key parent in the upbringing of the next generation, because moral training, not emotional sensitivity, was thought to be central to successful child-rearing. Mothers were thought to corrupt their little ones with too much affection and not enough stern training.” ChildrenLittlesImportantEnoughPlayMotherNextFatherParentMoralRolesSuccessfulToo MuchGenerationsEconomicCenturyEmotionalKeysTrainingAffectionSensitivityNext GenerationUpbringingChild Rearing Author:Sandra Scarr