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“And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.”

People Mother Loss Struggle Empathetic

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.”

Men Humans Mother Artist Struggle Treacherous Remorseless

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.”

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!”

Mind Two Mother Can Do Struggle Saws Lessons Overcoming Grandmother Hardship Invaluable Amazing Woman

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.”

Giving Mother Struggle Successful Giving Up Despite Never Giving Up

Author:Sharon Jaynes

“Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too... As a man, how could the destruction of women be anything to you but devastating? Think about the fact that the women being hurt are your mothers, daughters, sisters.”

Thinking Men Ends Facts Mother Hurt Struggle Daughter Destruction Mother Daughter Being Hurt

Author:Eve Ensler

“Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.”

“Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.”

Men Death Mother Differences Sleep Accepting Class Struggle Kings Men And Women Breathing Spells Twins Sheets Pathetic Beggar Majestic Castes

Book:Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

Source: Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

“When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.”

Years Hard Mother Struggle Dying Tough Cancer Albums

Author:Lil' Mama

“Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.”

Hands Mother Father Struggle Band Strive Bounds Breasts Weary

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“Every man who is not for us in this prolonged struggle for liberty is responsible for the present degradation of the mothers of the race. It is pitiful to see how few men ever have made our cause their own, but while leaving us to fight our battle alone, they have been unsparing in their criticism of every failure. Of all the battles for liberty in the long past, woman only has been left to fight her own, without help and with all the powers of earth and heaven, human and divine, arrayed against her.”

Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900

“Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.”

Mother Winning Struggle Prize

Author:Frank Pittman

“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.”

“I haven’t come from the typical path or background of someone who would make it to this level as a ballerina. When it came to my childhood-growing up in a single-parent home, often struggling financially-my mother definitely instilled in me and my siblings this strength, this will, to just continue to survive and succeed.”

Home Mother Parent Levels Struggle Growing Up Path Growing Childhood Havens Succeed Backgrounds Typical Sibling Ballerina Single Parent My Siblings Parents Home

Author:Misty Copeland