Mother`s Quotes
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I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighborhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips and stooping shoulders, or they yelled terrible insults at the children who harassed them. Extremely thin, with hollow eyes and cheeks, or with broad behinds, swollen ankles, heavy chests, they lugged shopping bags and small children who clung to their skirts and wanted to be picked up. And, good God, they were ten, at most twenty years older than me.
Elena Ferrante
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To cause pain was a disease. As a child I imagined tiny, almost invisible animals that arrived in the neighborhood at night, they came from the ponds, from the abandoned train cars beyond the embankment, from the stinking grasses called fetienti, from the frogs, the salamanders, the flies, the rocks, the dust, and entered the water and the food and the air, making our mothers, our grandmothers as angry as starving dogs.
Elena Ferrante
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'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children.
Andrea O'Reilly
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Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.
Elmina Shepard Taylor
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Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.
Ezra Taft Benson
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It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.
Barbara Katz Rothman
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Most mothers think they are bad mothers. We all make terrible mistakes, often, and always think we're getting it wrong.
Essie Davis
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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
Benjamin Rush
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Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.
Eve Ensler
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Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
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My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
Michael Jackson
