Nancy Chodorow Quotes

The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

Nancy Chodorow

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• I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • History
  • Mother

• Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Charity

• I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Children
  • Thought
  • Husband

• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Mother
  • Father

• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Children
  • Law
  • City

• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Style

• My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Mother
  • Father
  • German

• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

  

  Sally Field
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Doctor

• I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Children
  • Running
  • Wind

• When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Mother
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Freedom

• The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Reading

• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Mother
  • Religious
  • Expectation

• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Daughter

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• An artisan busies himself with his work for three hours each day and spends nine hours in study.

  

  Maimonides
  • Work
  • Study

• I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

  

  Piper Laurie

• Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.

  

  John Dawson Winter III

• Brock Lesnar likes to get his rest time, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Time
  • Rest

• As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

  

  Nancy Chodorow
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Daughter