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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I can act. I've been acting for a long time, but like anything else, don't nobody owe you nothing. You've go to pay your dues. You go from A to Z; you don't go from M to Z.
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Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.
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I work on my voice through what I have to sing.
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There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.
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I've been really impressed with the way he has come back from the Under 21 World Cup and taken his form into club rugby.
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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
