Mother Quotes
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There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.
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For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.
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Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."
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My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
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My career choice was to be a mother.
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Adversity is the mother of progress.
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My mother always said you could eat off her floor; you could eat of my floor too, there's so much food down there.
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But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.
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My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.
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I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.
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Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.
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It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter — which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.
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At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.
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Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.
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My brother wasn't loved by my mother in the same way that I was.
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The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
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I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.
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So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.
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We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit different.
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You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.
