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“Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.”

Ifs Men Way Should Children Mother Certain Father Inspiring Teach Men And Women Behave Mothers Day

Book:The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate and Enduring Marriage

Source: The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate and Enduring Marriage

“I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.”

Thinking Way Children Said Mother Inspiring Cost Motherhood Our Family Mothers Day Child Rearing

Author:Brooke Burke

“Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?”

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Book:The Strong Family

Source: The Strong Family

“Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.”

Mother Inspiring Fine Trump Catholic Guilt Jew Mothers Day

Author:Diane Lane

“Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.”

Ifs Wells Children Mother Voice Born Decision Inspiring Poverty Healthy Impact Hunger Educated Empowering Immense Imperatives Mothers Day Positive Impact Ending Hunger Healthy Children

Author:Dionne Warwick

“The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.”

Thinking Way Real Mother Given Voice Inspiring Audience Missing Honesty Members Hollywood Saint Motherhood Mothers Day

Author:Ellen Barkin

“That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?”

People Ifs Children Mother Father Loses Inspiring Figures Red Satisfied God Love Bother Hats Mothers Day Red Hat

Author:Frances Farmer

“Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.”

Ifs Way Children Stills Self Mother Felt Interest Sleep Inspiring Standing Mothers Day Self Interest Standing Still

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.”

Home Care Mother Father Stuff Hours Inspiring Numbers Caring Take Care Mothers Day Mother And Father

Author:James Levine

“Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.”

Years Mean Children Doe Home Today Mother Causes Inspiring Generations Baby Years Ago Our Children Guilt Raised Staying Mothers Day Love Our Children Guilt Trip Baby Boom Full Time Mother

Author:Jane Pauley

“To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.”

Believe Children Ends Home Would Be Care Mother Lost Inspiring Land Sorry Former Innocence Australia Far Away New Beginnings Mothers Day Migrants Love And Care

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.”

Mother Inspiring Mothers Day

Author:Vera Farmiga

“I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.”

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Author:Wilbur Smith

“I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.”

“The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things. And all of a sudden, not just business thrives, but small business thrives.”

Ifs Persons Mother Hours Economy Flower Mom Lessons Yoga Raises Studios Piano Restaurants Thrive Gym Going Out Minimum Earning Small Business Mothers Day Minimum Wage Piano Lesson

Author:Nick Hanauer

“In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.”

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Author:Margaret Heffernan

“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”

Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table

“I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.”

Years Mother Watches Horror Mothers Day

Author:Eli Roth

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

Source: Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)

“Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.”

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Author:Jane D. Hull

“Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper.”

Mother Father Mothers Day Cheaper

Author:Colin Falconer

“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“Any Hamas or Zionist type who tries to interfere with the labor unions and grab the money will be marched to the guillotines and subsequently beheaded. And isn't that easier and more productive than some endless, bloody conflict? So sayeth the gospel of common sense. Happy Mother's Day.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel.”

Mother Father Mothers Day Sequels

Author:J. B. Smoove

“My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.”

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Author:Magic Johnson

“It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don’t acknowledge that family is important and it has to be people who are present, you know and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.”

People Thinking Knows Children Important Real Enough Problem Mother Father Inspiring Acknowledge Being Real Mothers Day Mother And Father

Author:James Earl Jones

“I did shoot a movie called 'Mother's Day', and I really can't wait for everybody to see that. I had so much fun shooting that with Jennifer Aniston, which was kind of surreal in itself.”

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Author:Shay Mitchell

“Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but realistically that's going to be a big part of the day.”

Home Bigs Mother Baby Guilt Mothers Day Visiting Cannons Guilt Trip

Author:Kate Siegel

“I do have health insurance (don't fine me, [Barack] Obama!). And while we agree that career is important, my mother has an AOL email address and shares articles she finds interesting on Facebook by screen shotting and posting a picture of them. So, if mother doesn't understand links, she's not going to understand what I do for a living. I'm confident in my current career trajectory, so this will be another Mother's Day disappointment.”

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Author:Kate Siegel

“I'll say this again: Her presence would be the best Mother's Day gift I could ever ask for. I know Kate Siegel a big bestselling author now, but I was sliced, no, ripped open from my boobs down to my baby cannon to bring her into this world, all but bathed in her puke for years, and acted as her own personal chauffeur for the first sixteen years of her life.”

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Author:Kate Siegel

“My daughter lives in an apartment (hovel) in Brooklyn, so disgusting the roaches don't even bother hiking up the four flights of stairs to her door. Did I mention that she has a family of mice living under her stove? If she would promise to carry a weapon in her bag, I would never ask her to visit again. Best Mother's Day gift I could ask for!”

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Author:Kate Siegel

“Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.”

Would Be Mother Inspiring Poor Rich Enormous Criticize Gaps Mothers Day Rich And Poor Refrain Kinder Helpers Criticizing Others

Author:Erica Jong

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition

“I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.”

Long Mother Strong Lines Inspiring Grew Grew Up Very Strong Strong Women Mothers Day Long Lines Matriarchs

Author:Erykah Badu

“My mother never talked about sex. I was on the Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] show once - this is years and years and years ago - and it was her Mother's Day show. And I didn't know what we were going to talk about but what she decided we were going to talk about was female masturbation. My mother had invited all her girlfriends. And you know these were all women in their late seventy's maybe they were in their eighty's by then and then and they were horrified because Dr Ruth had a little she had a little chart up you know "female masturbation".”

Knows Years Littles Shows Mother Sex Late Female Years Ago Decided Girlfriend Drs Seventies Invited Eighty Mothers Day Masturbation Ruth

Author:Judy Blume

“My mom is definitely my rock.”

Inspiring Rocks Mom My Mom Motherhood Mothers Day

Author:Alicia Keys

“We should recognize that women become mothers the moment they are pregnant.”

Should Moments Mother Inspiring Pregnant Mothers Day

Author:Alveda King

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

Source: Homeland and Other Stories

“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”

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Author:Rudyard Kipling

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”

“If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!”

Ifs Knows Stills Mother Mines Mom Highest Motherhood Hills Mothers Day Follow Me Mother Love Mother's Love Mother Day Poems Motherhood And Love

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.”

“All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.”

Want Mother Inspiring Please Impress Chef Mothers Day Eagerness Jewish Mother

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.”

People America Mother Culture Inspiring Behavior Mothers Day Bad People

Author:Anne Lamott

“I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.”

Men Mother My Own Inspiring Grew Gay Extraordinary Passing Passings Spite Mothers Day Gay Men Surrogates Extraordinary Love

Author:Anne Lamott

“I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.”

Want Feels Mother Son Flower Gratitude Raises Endure Obligation Teeth Celebrate My Son Lunch Display Mothers Day Grit Annuals Want Him

Author:Anne Lamott

“Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.”

Has Beens Stills Ideas Mother Parent Dangerous Superiors Mothers Day Mothering Dangerous Ideas

Author:Anne Lamott

“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.”

“A mother who is really a mother is never free.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

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