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“Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.”

Way Different Kids Mother Father Communication Direct Different Ways

Author:Richard Louv

“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.”

Way Years Long Stories Wanted Mother Desire Black White Changed Pages Hundred Decided Eight Screens Pounds Short Story Black And White Never Change Goats Paragraph Laptops

Author:Tea Obreht

“Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.”

Way Writing Inspiration Mother Knowing Doubt Wonderful Storyteller

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.”

Way Two Jobs Mother Three Asks Nice Lucky Grateful Wine Clean Fruit Bread Excellent Meat Cheese Minimum Minimum Wage Crisps Single Mother Two Jobs Wine And Cheese

Author:Rachael Taylor

“I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.”

Way Wanted Mother Father Speak Decision Study Serious Medicine Trepidation

Book:In praise of imperfection: my life and work

Source: In praise of imperfection: my life and work

“When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.”

Way Persons Mother Space Deals Information Best Way Objectives Interviewing Someone

Author:James McBride

“If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.”

Ifs Way Littles Mother Found Father Speak Voice Heard Brother Quiet Best Way Shut Up Older Brother Little Sister

Author:Peter Welch

“I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.”

Way Should Trying Believe Moving Mother Father Process Saws Regret Fine Husband Died Don't Believe Nine Grieving Traits Mum Deeply In Love Grieving Process

Author:Robert Winston

“Over the years, I’ve worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife.”

Way Years Sometimes Mother Wife Heard Criticism Males Complaining Worried Colleagues Reservations

Author:Jill Abramson

“I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Might Able Mother Father Forget Brother Treats Forgiving Honestly Treated Adversaries Grudge Older Brother

Author:Monte Irvin

“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

“The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. The earth of human kind contains all moistness, all verdancy, all germinating power. It is in so many ways fruitful. All creation comes from it. Yet it forms not only the basic raw material for humankind, but also the substance of the incarnation of God's son.”

Way Humans Kind Earth Form Mother Natural Creation Son Materials Environmental Seeds Substance Humankind Incarnation Raw Materials

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of different issues. And honestly, I don't think it's different for anybody. There's no right way to make sure your child will be emotionally and mentally healthier. It's just frustrating.”

Thinking Way Children Different Mother Reading Issues Degrees Our Children Honestly Your Children Right Way Frustrating Blogs Schizophrenia Dysfunction

Author:Vera Farmiga

“Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.”

Way Children Today Faces Mother Waiting Challenges Messages Fulfilled Mother And Child Challenges We Face

Author:Lee Jong-wook

“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.”

Way Wanted Mother Father Mama

Author:Lillian Hellman

“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.”

Way Should Mind Heart Children Said Reason Use Pain Mother Dies Father Sin Son Guilty Witness Mortals Queens My Son Monarchs Treading Mortal Sin Blanche

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.”

Source: To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875

“What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions, to the point of pure hysteria; I never liked it. Those who are humiliated in such a way learn to disintegrate – that is, they become once removed from pain. This is the most direct route to psychic ruin.”

Way Feels Children Doe Two Pain Mother Pure Direct Ruins Occasions Routes Psychics Hysteria Humiliated

Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go find some mothers on the streets of San Raphael and give them tens and twenties and mail off another $50 to Doctors Without Borders to use for the refugees in Kosovo. Because I know that giving is the way we can feel abundant. Giving is the way that we fill ourselves up.... For me the way to fill up is through service and sharing and getting myself to give more than I feel comfortable giving.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Feels Use Mother Streets Comfortable Solutions Doctors Twenties Borders Mail Refugee Deprivation Raphael Kosovo Doctors Without Borders

Author:Anne Lamott

“I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Long Sometimes Enough Kids Mother Desire Evil Lines Walks Wonder Steps Cutting Saint Grass Scare Bleeding Razors

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.”

Way Children Earth Moving Mother Growing Mortals Gathering Sowing

Book:Poems of George Meredith

Source: Poems of George Meredith

“If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.”

Ifs World Way Children Earth Used Mother Fun Natural Technology Protect Tools Having Fun Tunes Cooperation Aggressive Nurture Masculine Cowgirls

Author:Tom Robbins

“Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.”

Way Heart Character Helping Mother Understanding Novel Daughter Complicated Legacy Who We Are Insightful Quests Washing Mother Daughter Illuminating

Author:Carolyn Parkhurst

“We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.”

World Way Humans Has Beens Made Country Hard Mother Race Known Destiny Doubt Human Nature Accomplish Great Things Our Country Schemes Nativity

Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

“It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.”

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Author:Nigella Lawson

“Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.”

Thinking Way Wells Enough Mother Felt Income Fortunate Call Me Communist

Author:Liev Schreiber

“When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.”

Ifs Way Feels Stories Mother Father Sex Easy Stage Goes On Industry Sorry Objectives Hey If I Could Sailing Mike Mother And Father Politically Correct Tyson Portraying Doing Me Pimp

Author:Mike Tyson

“It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.”

Knows Way Mother Fall Grows Voice Space Clearing

Author:Paula Giddings

“I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the ways of life are established in small, consenting groups. These groups could cooperate with other groups as they saw fit. But all cooperation would be on a voluntary basis. As the French anarchist Proudhon said. “Liberty [is] not the daughter but the Mother of Order.”

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Author:Karl Hess

“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.”

Way Years Children Littles Kids Mother Father Felt Parent Black Term White Responsibility Audience Saws Color Tvs Smarter Little Kid Sitcom Manipulative Caregivers

Author:Bill Cosby

“When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.”

Way May Children Littles Shows Faces Mother Monsters Temptation Breasts Tempted Shrinks Bosoms

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother - to feel this way about her son?”

Ifs Way Feels Mother Levels Son Becoming Deeper Preparation Disgusting Fatherhood Obscene Untrustworthy Becoming A Mother

Author:Warren Farrell

“Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Looks Important Helping Home Mother Easy Son Projects Starting Passionate Look Up My Son You Choose Fragrance What's Important New Projects

Author:Christina Aguilera

“What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other.”

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Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."”

People Ifs Thinking Way Looks Used Mother Mad Smile More

Author:Denzel Washington

“When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.”

People Way Feels Should Mother Sides Teacher Equal Authority One Way

Author:Maya Angelou

“My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.”

Men Way Said Sometimes Mother Deals Brain Equal Best Way Smarter Mules

Book:The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4

Source: The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4

“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.”

Thinking Way Looks Enough Mother Fun Memories Movement Invention Puzzles Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you, and in many ways makes you who you are. Just as it's a virtue to honor your parents, it's a good and admirable thing to honor the land you call home.”

Way Country Home Mother Father Parent Natural Virtue Land Honor Protect Who You Are Homeland Admirable Loving You Protect You

Book:The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America

Source: The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America

“I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.I just thought that there was one way to speak to my father and another to talk to my mother.”

Knows Way Firsts Two Mother Father Speak Language One Way Canada

Author:Louis St. Laurent

“I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.”

Way Mother Father Fashion Opposites Liberation Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.”

Way Body Running School Mother Fall Sports Morning Sun Brother Spring Winter Athlete Breakfast Every Morning Brothers And Sisters Alabama

Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities.”

Thinking Way Giving Children Mother Ability One Thing Have Confidence Great Gifts

Author:John Turturro

“Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.”

Knows World Way Feels Littles Beautiful Mother Father Known Wonderful Lucky Creatures Romantic Love Mother And Father Beautiful Creatures

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“Both my mothers family and my fathers family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so thats the way I see myself.”

Way Years Mother Father Born Hundred My Family Raised

Author:Ann Kirkpatrick

“I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to ... go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children.' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.”

Way Children Ends Shows Mother My Way My Children Resolution Rags Blunt Scissors

Book:Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide

Source: Four of a Kind: A Suburban Field Guide

“Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.”

Way Children Stills Different Real Mother Consciousness Habit Degrees Daughter Different Ways Mutual Mother And Daughter

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

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