Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
New mothers should enjoy every phase of motherhood without caring about the world. Weight can be checked and controlled. Don't lose your head and mind over it.
My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.
My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.
My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
Sometimes, somehow... I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth, that mourns over terrible great sin done by men.
As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth.
I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?
Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.
My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.
As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.
It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece.
I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.
