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“I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.”

Children Play Wanted Mother Choices Roles Terrible Victim Alcoholics Let Down

Author:Lucy Lawless

“Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.”

“Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.”

Firsts Has Beens War Feelings Mother Passion Tragedy Murder Victim Jealousy Harbour

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?”

Mother Mom Terrible Morality Function Victim Sacred Motherhood Criminals

Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision.”

Want Jobs Mother Decision Victim

Author:Jack Welch

“My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.”

Knows I Can Mother Strong Taught Victim Excuse Never Expect

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.”

Want Made Stills Mother Artist Lessons Victim Feminist Exclusive Fragility

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.”

Mother Parent Company Teach Speech Victim Income Hospitals Strokes Percentages Therapists Single Parent

Author:Mona Simpson

“Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go, empower their childrenof either gender to feel free and whole. But weak women, women who feel and act like victims of something or other, may make their children feel responsible for taking care of them, and they can carry their children down with them.”

People Feels May Children Whole Care Mother Strong Weak Responsible Victim Gender Pursue Empowering Men Women Strong People Weak Women

Author:Frank Pittman