“Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.” ThinkingWayLooksEnoughMotherFunMemoriesMovementInventionPuzzlesNecessity Is The Mother Of Invention Author:Shigeru Miyamoto
“My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.” MotherFatherParentRightsMovementStudentsWorkersActiveCivil RightsSecretaryCommitteesCivil Rights MovementPanthersCoordinatingSncc Author:Yaya DaCosta
“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.” FirstsChildrenHas BeensLastsMotherTimeForceMemoriesSleepBehindsKnownEventsMovementReturnGardenBrilliantMourningProphecyReconciliationSpineRibsExpulsion Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.” KnowsWantLongHas BeensRealUseHomeDreamLawMotherGamesMovementLong TimeDaughterRaisesYour DreamsMeant To BeGrandchildrenIn-lawsTokensWere Meant To BeAmbivalentDaughter In Law Author:Erma Bombeck
“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
“Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.” WayShouldAgeMotherParentWomenMovementMarriedUncertaintyComing Of AgeTrailsDivorcedInceptionConundrumsHomemakerWorking Parents Author:Anne Roiphe