Mother`s Quotes
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In the early 1970s psychologist David Olds was working in a Baltimore day-care center where many of the preschoolers came from homes wracked by poverty, domestic violence, and drug abuse. Aware that only addressing the children’s problems at school was not sufficient to improve their home conditions, he started a home-visitation program in which skilled nurses helped mothers to provide a safe and stimulating environment for their children and, in the process, to imagine a better future for themselves. Twenty years later, the children of the home-visitation mothers.
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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.
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The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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.
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Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
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We heard that the Americans and the British encouraged mothers to work in the war industries, that they provided child care and paid high wages to a highly motivated, patriotic workforce. But the Führer rejected this idea. German women received extra rations, even medals of honor, for breeding profusely.
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My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
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Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.
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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.
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The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.
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I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children.
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It took one human error to take my leg and one human error to take my mother's.
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Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.
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Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.
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Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes.
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A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.
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Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
