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Image of Marge Piercy
Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
- Marge Piercy
Collection: Mother
Image of Lisa See
Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
- Lisa See
Collection: Mother
Image of Joe Dunthorne
My mother tells me I do not chew my food enough; she says I am making it harder for my body to get the essential nutrients it needs. If she were here, I would remind her that I am eating a blueberry Pop-Tart.
- Joe Dunthorne
Collection: Mother
Image of Joe Dunthorne
It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.
- Joe Dunthorne
Collection: Mother
Image of Meghan O'Rourke
I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Collection: Mother
Image of Meghan O'Rourke
One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Collection: Mother
Image of Meghan O'Rourke
A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Collection: Mother
Image of Meghan O'Rourke
A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Collection: Mother
Image of Meghan O'Rourke
The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Collection: Mother
Image of Meghan O'Rourke
When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Collection: Mother
Image of Scott Spencer
I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
- Scott Spencer
Collection: Mother
Image of Linda Blair
We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.
- Linda Blair
Collection: Mother
Image of Debbie Stabenow
The biggest challenge is to convince a woman that it's not her fault. My daughter is 25; my stepdaughter is 22. As a mother, I want them to know that if a boyfriend is abusive, you cannot ignore it ?- 'Oh, he's been drinking,' or 'He had a bad day.' There is no excuse for a man hitting a woman. Ever.
- Debbie Stabenow
Collection: Mother
Image of Jordan Sonnenblick
(Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers’ shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)
- Jordan Sonnenblick
Collection: Mother
Image of Jordan Sonnenblick
It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".
- Jordan Sonnenblick
Collection: Mother
Image of Vandana Shiva
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
- Vandana Shiva
Collection: Mother
Image of Benjamin Rush
Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.
- Benjamin Rush
Collection: Mother
Image of Charles Buxton
In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.
- Charles Buxton
Collection: Mother
Image of Stephen Lang
I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother and my grandmother - always sentimental and warm thoughts.
- Stephen Lang
Collection: Mother
Image of J.R. Miller
Mothers of young children, your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in the little ones that you hushed to sleep in your bosoms last night, are powers that shall exist forever. You are preparing them for their immortal destiny and influence. Be faithful. Take up your sacred burden reverently. Be sure that your heart is pure and that your life is sweet and clean.
- J.R. Miller
Collection: Mother
Image of Elena Ferrante
Women, in all fields - whether mothers or not - still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things together and often sacrifice their aspirations in the name of affections.
- Elena Ferrante
Collection: Mother
Image of Katharine Whitehorn
I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).
- Katharine Whitehorn
Collection: Mother
Image of Katharine Whitehorn
I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.
- Katharine Whitehorn
Collection: Mother
Image of Liane Moriarty
Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.
- Liane Moriarty
Collection: Mother
Image of Ellen Gilchrist
One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or father, your marriage will pay for it in ways both obvious and subtle. When the chips are down, when someone is sick or loses their job or gets scared, the old patterns will kick in and he will treat you the way he treated his mother or the way she treated him.
- Ellen Gilchrist
Collection: Mother
Image of Jacquelyn Mitchard
Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
Collection: Mother
Image of Lisa Unger
Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.
- Lisa Unger
Collection: Mother
Image of Sebastian Horsley
I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.
- Sebastian Horsley
Collection: Mother
Image of Helen Steiner Rice
A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away
- Helen Steiner Rice
Collection: Mother
Image of Debra Messing
Whatever consequences come as a result, in terms of work, I'm fully prepared to embrace because it's a priority to me to be a mother.
- Debra Messing
Collection: Mother
Image of R.K. Narayan
We come together only to go apart again. The law of life can't be avoided. The law comes into operation the moment we detach ourselves from our mother's womb. All struggle & misery in life is due to our attempt to arrest this law or get away from it or in allowing ourselves to be hurt by it. The fact must be recognized. A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. All else is false. The law of life. No sense in battling against it.
- R.K. Narayan
Collection: Mother
Image of John Ratzenberger
I don't want to go back to sitcoms - I'm a middle-aged, white guy - the high school principal who's a buffoon. It's hard enough raising kids now a days, and I don't want to be a part of a show that I'll be embarrassed watching shows like that with my kids and my mother. A lot of shows feel they need to get that for humor. You've have to have had a life experience; otherwise, it's toilet humor. If you've had a job before or experienced something, you get it. Some of these people haven't and they look for the cheap laugh.
- John Ratzenberger
Collection: Mother
Image of Tecumseh
My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
- Tecumseh
Collection: Mother
Image of Viola Davis
There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.
- Viola Davis
Collection: Mother
Image of Marsha Norman
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.'
- Marsha Norman
Collection: Mother
Image of Tony Wilson
That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.
- Tony Wilson
Collection: Mother
Image of Patti Smith
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.
- Patti Smith
Collection: Mother
Image of Sheri S. Tepper
Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.
- Sheri S. Tepper
Collection: Mother
Image of Sheri S. Tepper
We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.
- Sheri S. Tepper
Collection: Mother
Image of Ayelet Waldman
I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.
- Ayelet Waldman
Collection: Mother
Image of Peter Shaffer
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can hardly read. He knows no physics or engineering to make to world real for him. No paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it. No music except television jingles. No history except tales from a desperate mother. No friends. Not one kid to give him a joke, or make him know himself more moderately. He's a modern citizen for whom society doesn't exist.
- Peter Shaffer
Collection: Mother
Image of Lynsay Sands
I thought you said that after this many years nothing should embarrass him?" Leigh said with gentle amusement. Lucian grunted. "I guess he's more sensitive than I thought." "I am NOT sensitive," Cale snapped, irritated by the very suggestion. "It's probably his mother's fault," Lucian said, ignoring him. "Martine named him after Caliope, the muse of poetry. Between that and his father dying when he was only fifty, he's probably suffered under Martine's namby-pamby influence.
- Lynsay Sands
Collection: Mother
Image of Helen Fisher
Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.
- Helen Fisher
Collection: Mother
Image of Reynolds Price
As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
- Reynolds Price
Collection: Mother
Image of Cinda Williams Chima
If he even survives." She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth. "It's that bad?" Raisa nodded. "He looked...he looked awful, Amon. Willo doesn't know if he'll...She's worried about him. My mother died, and I never got to tell her that I loved her, that I finally understood - just a little anyway. If Han dies too, I don't know what I'll do.
- Cinda Williams Chima
Collection: Mother
Image of Ethel Waters
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of the family.
- Ethel Waters
Collection: Mother
Image of Richard Peck
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
- Richard Peck
Collection: Mother
Image of Scott Hahn
When it comes to explaining the Blessed Virgin Mary, having a lot of love is more important than having a lot of answers. When we come up lacking, she’ll make greater goods out of our deficiencies, as only a mother can do. Whenever we're humiliated and shown our weakness, we should get ready for something better than we could ever plan and prepare to accomplish. Evangelize with joy, then, and with confidence. Know from the start that you don’t have all the answers-but your Savior does, and He loves His mother. He will give you everything you need, even if sometimes you need to fail.
- Scott Hahn
Collection: Mother
Image of Harvey Weinstein
I'm the father of four daughters.
- Harvey Weinstein
Collection: Mother