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Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
- Wilde, Oscar
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Best Quotes about Mothers

1.
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
Weldon, Fay

2.
He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
Proverb, English

3.
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
Rollin, Betty

4.
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.
Dworkin, Andrea

5.
The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
Billings, Victoria

6.
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
Oakley, Ann

7.
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher

8.
Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.
Nunn, Gregory

9.
A mother's heart is always with her children.
Proverb

10.
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.
Gillman, Charlotte P.

11.
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?
Goldman, Emma

12.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Paglia, Camille

14.
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.
Carter, Angela

15.
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.
Duras, Marguerite

16.
The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.
Keble, John

17.
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
Eliot, George

18.
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.
Ehrenreich, Barbara

19.
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.
Carter, Angela

20.
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
Howells, William Dean

21.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.
Maugham, W. Somerset

22.
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Lin Yu-tang

23.
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.
Douglas, Norman

24.
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.
Ehrenreich, Barbara

25.
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.
Duras, Marguerite

26.
Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.
Putnam, Emily James

27.
Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
Wilde, Oscar

28.
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.
Rich, Adrienne

29.
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.
Victoria, Queen

30.
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.
Greer, Germaine

31.
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.
Rich, Adrienne

32.
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.
Roth, Philip

33.
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
Fenton, James

34.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Walker, Alice

35.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
West, Rebecca

36.
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.
Eliot, George

37.
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.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

38.
A busy mother makes slothful daughters.
Proverb, Portuguese

39.
God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers
Proverb, Jewish

40.
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

41.
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.
Washington, George

42.
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.
Mcginley, Phyllis

43.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together.
Buck, Pearl S.

44.
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
Blum, Leon

45.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Alcott, Amos Bronson


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