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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
-George Eliot
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A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
-George Eliot
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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
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It is true that you may occasionally overhear a mother say
Children must have their naps,
It's mother who knows best.
When what she really means by that
Is that she needs a rest.
-Donna Evleth
Inspiring Quotations compiled by A M Wells, Jr, 1988
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The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
-James Fenton
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A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
-Dorothy Canfield Fisher
quoted in 'O' Magazine, May 2003
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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
-Erich Fromm
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RICHER THAN GOLD
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be --
I had a mother who read to me.
-Strickland Gillilan
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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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
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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
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The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
-Sydney J. Harris
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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
-Theodore Hesburgh
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Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
-William Dean Howells
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And yet of all the home remedies,
A good wife and mother is still the best.
-Kin Hubbard
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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
-Washington Irving
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Books about Mother
