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
Quotes to Explore
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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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.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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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.
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I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
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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 -
My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives.
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I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.
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Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way.
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Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
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It took me a solid four or five years to feel really comfortable in front of the camera.
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The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother
