And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I am like salt, which disappears when you cook with it. I am salt. Without my children, I c...
Our culture sends some amazingly contradictory messages about what an ideal mother is like. Mothers try to live up to these ideals without recognizing the contradictions or the improbability of the task. As mothers, you are often expected to have a f...
It could not have been easy for Mother, an only child, to grow up without a father and with a mother who was remote. Photos of her as a child show her extremely dressed up --Cornie's beautiful little doll. But a daughter, unlike a doll, grows up, and...
young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not only temporarily disturbed by such deprivation, but may in some cases suffer long-term effects which persist Bowlby,...
Mr. Parker: [after Mother "accidentally" breaks the Old Man's leg lamp] Don't you touch that! You were always jealous of this lamp. Mother: Jealous of a plastic... Mr. Parker: Jealous! Jealous because I WON. Mother: That's ridiculous. Jealous. Jealou...
Jane: Are you lost? The Unmarried Mother: No I'm looking for someone. Thanks, I'll just wait. Jane: Well, you know what they say about good things happening to those who wait. The Unmarried Mother: But only the things left behind by those who hustle ...
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Haven't you heard? Conscience is dead. Charlie Simms: No, I haven't heard. Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Well, then, take the fuckin' wax outta your ears! Grow up! It's fuck your buddy, cheat on your wife, call your mother on Mother's D...
You never meet your mother-in-law on the day that you are welldressed.
He that would the daughter win, Must with the mother first begin.
A silly daughter teaches her mother how to bear children.
Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can be cooked together but they will never be tender.
Judge a man not by the words of his mother, but from the comments of his neighbors.
If summer had a mother, she would weep at summer's passing.
What reaches the mother's heart will only reach the father's knees.
There is nothing better than a rich wife and a generous mother-in-law.
The daughter-in-law wipes away what the mother-in-law has seen.
I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.
If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance!
We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.
