Mother`s Quotes
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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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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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'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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What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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.
Edith Hahn Beer
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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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The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.
Brigid Schulte
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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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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, 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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Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite
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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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My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
Michael Jackson
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant
