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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Mother

"Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk."

Children Mother Brother
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James Thurber Cartoonist, Author
Mother

"Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry."

Mother Dog Sorry
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet."

Mother Creativity Daughter
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them."

Children Mother Fear
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
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"And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father."

Mother Father Gratitude
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Linda Grant Author
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"The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay."

War Mother Daughter
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Jane Austen Novelist
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"Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly."

Two Hands Mother
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Jane Austen Novelist
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"I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance."

Believe Mother Night
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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful. She enjoyed having her babies, as good mothers do."

Mother Baby Intelligent
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Jennifer Stone Actress
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"I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes."

Eye Mother Father
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest."

Children Mother Wisdom
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Johannes Kepler Astronomer, Mathematician
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"So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things."

Life Mother Ignorance
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John F. Kennedy Politician
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"We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be very helpful, and I would like to lobby in their behalf."

Mother Equal Pay Day Care
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