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"My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family's life and experience. She is one strong lady."
"My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything."
"I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever."
"The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him."
"The narcissistic, the domineering, the possessive woman can succeed in being a "loving" mother as long as the child is small. Only the really loving woman, the woman who is happier in giving than in taking, who is firmly rooted in her own existence, can be a loving mother when the child is in the process of separation."
"Mother's love always peace as it not to be acquired nor deserved."
"You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan."
"My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up."
"We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'"
"Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake."
"I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren."
"I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent."
"My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday."
"My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life."
"When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am."
"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked."
"If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters."
"Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel."
"Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies."
"A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage."
