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A busy mother makes slothful daughters.

Mother
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Mother
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A mother understands what a child does not say.

Mother
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A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Honoré de Balzac

Mother
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A mother's heart is always with her children.

Mother
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A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

George Eliot

Mother
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

Germaine Greer

Mother
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Mother
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Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

Gregory Nunn

Mother
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

Adrienne Rich

Mother
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But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

George Eliot

Mother
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Camille Paglia

Mother
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

W. Somerset Maugham

Mother
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For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

Marguerite Duras

Mother
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God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers

Mother
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He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.

Mother
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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Alice Walker

Mother
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I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Marguerite Duras

Mother
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Mother
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Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.

Oscar Wilde

Mother
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Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

Mother
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Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Emma Goldman

Mother
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Rebecca West

Mother
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Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mother
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Mark Twain

Mother
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

George Washington

Mother
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No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Mother
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Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

Norman Douglas

Mother
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Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles -- and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech -- look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

Philip Roth

Mother
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Pearl S. Buck

Mother
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Mother
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The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

Phyllis McGinley

Mother
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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

Andrea Dworkin

Mother
34

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

Angela Carter

Mother
35

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher

Mother
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Adrienne Rich

Mother
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There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

Angela Carter

Mother
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

Olive Schreiner

Mother
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What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Louisa May Alcott

Mother
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

James Joyce

Mother
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Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Mother
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mother

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A busy mother makes slothful daughters.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

A mother understands what a child does not say.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A mother's heart is always with her children.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers

He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.

Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.