“As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies” Has BeensMotherSufferingFatherMy OwnPartySolitudeSickBitterServantChairsAbandonedTiedAgonyAmusedPerishing Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.” MenMotherRaceMistakeAtheismOriginalsPositive AtheismAcceptedServant Book:His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers
“My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.” KidsMotherNightJokesRaisedDinnerCooksServantGrandmotherSundayEggsSoupMy GrandmotherSunday NightScrambled Eggs Author:Katharine Weymouth
“Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.” ThinkingKnowsTryingChildrenHas BeensSaidCountryUseFunnyMotherGirlFoundOughtLateFaultsExcuseServantToo LateSundayTake MeRemedy Author:William Howard Taft