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“It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.”

Way Mother Sea Brother Wind Window Regard Noise My Brother Fashionable Chimes

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.”

World States Mother Father Policy Regard Affair Aids Branches Department Economist World Affairs

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.”

“Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.”

Should Children Mother Married Regard Motherhood Granted Conventions Reverence Honorable Standpoint Unmarried Dishonorable

Author:Ben Lindsey

“To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that small regard to rule Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school; That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street.”

Mind Children Stills School Mother Poor Pay Class Study Wife Streets Regard Patient Busy Humble Thirty Awe Infant Deaf Widows Trifling Huts

Book:The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author

“The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.”

Giving Mother Father Wish Regard Complexes Obstacles Intense Oedipus

Book:The Ego and the Id

Source: The Ego and the Id

“Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates her trust in these people, the baby will regard them as delicious novelties. Anybody the mother trusts whom the baby sees often enough partakes a bit of the presence of the mother.”

People Ifs Enough Mother Next Bits Doors Brother Baby Regard Communicate Neighbor Familiar Grandparent Brothers And Sisters Delicious Novelty Next Door Neighbors

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual