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Image of Moon Unit Zappa
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I was going to get educated.
- Moon Unit Zappa
Collection: Mother
Image of Jewell Parker Rhodes
Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.
- Jewell Parker Rhodes
Collection: Mother
Image of Susan Abulhawa
Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?
- Susan Abulhawa
Collection: Mother
Image of Brooke Shields
I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?
- Brooke Shields
Collection: Mother
Image of Esmeralda Santiago
In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.
- Esmeralda Santiago
Collection: Mother
Image of William Tyndale
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
- William Tyndale
Collection: Mother
Image of Rebecca Walker
My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships.
- Rebecca Walker
Collection: Mother
Image of Trudi Canavan
What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.
- Trudi Canavan
Collection: Mother
Image of Hayden Panettiere
I don't really have a plan. I've lived a very big life, and I don't feel my age, and I feel like I was born to be a mother.
- Hayden Panettiere
Collection: Mother
Image of Henry A. Wallace
People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.
- Henry A. Wallace
Collection: Mother
Image of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Collection: Mother
Image of Susan Juby
In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.
- Susan Juby
Collection: Mother
Image of Mary Pope Osborne
After my husband died more than a decade ago, my mother prayed that I would remarry so that I could have a "normal" life again. Many people assumed that it would be too difficult for me to carry on as a single mother and raise a child without a man at my side. As the years went by, I found that it was indeed possible and that, in fact, I had no desire to remarry.
- Mary Pope Osborne
Collection: Mother
Image of Mary Pope Osborne
When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!
- Mary Pope Osborne
Collection: Mother
Image of Annie Besant
India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.
- Annie Besant
Collection: Mother
Image of Caitlin Moran
But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves - rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children.
- Caitlin Moran
Collection: Mother
Image of Joseph Delaney
And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!
- Joseph Delaney
Collection: Mother
Image of Joseph Delaney
And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women." My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a little angry, "and I trust her." Mothers are usually women," said the Spook. "And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!
- Joseph Delaney
Collection: Mother
Image of Hillary Jordan
When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and you just better hope you ain't in her way. That's the Lord's doing right there. He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain't around to do it most of the time. Helping that child be up to the mama. But God never gives us a task without giving us the means to see it through. That mama worry come straight from Him, it make it so she can't help but look after that child.
- Hillary Jordan
Collection: Mother
Image of Lea Thompson
As a mother, anyone who has a teenager can attest to being really excited when they have something positive to be putting their energy into. They have so much energy, and it can go in the wrong direction.
- Lea Thompson
Collection: Mother
Image of Marc Levy
My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that the buildings were still in place, the streets were still full of cars running, full of people who were walking, seemingly ignoring that my whole world has just disappeared." (rough translation)
- Marc Levy
Collection: Mother
Image of R.L. LaFevers
I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.
- R.L. LaFevers
Collection: Mother
Image of Caryll Houselander
Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.
- Caryll Houselander
Collection: Mother
Image of Robert Wagner
Occasionally, on screen, Barbara [Stanwyck] had a wary, watchful quality about her that I've noticed in other people who had bad childhoods; they tend to keep an eye on life because they don't think it can be trusted. After her mother was killed by a streetcar, she had been raised in Brooklyn by her sisters, and from things she said, I believe she had been abused as a child. She had lived an entirely different life than mine, that's for sure, which is one reason I found her so fascinating. I think her early life was one reason she had such authenticity as an actress, and as a person.
- Robert Wagner
Collection: Mother
Image of Julie Benz
I didn't really know who [Dario Argento] was at the time. I know him now, obviously. But I went in to be an extra on the movie [Two Evil Eyes], and he saw me sitting out waiting to meet the casting director, and he pulled my mother and I into a separate conference room.
- Julie Benz
Collection: Mother
Image of Melanie Benjamin
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.
- Melanie Benjamin
Collection: Mother
Image of Catherine Zeta-Jones
My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off!
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
Collection: Mother
Image of Erma Bombeck
Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them: I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom and what time you would get home. ... I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your friend was a creep. I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drugstore and confess, 'I stole this.' ... But most of all I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all.
- Erma Bombeck
Collection: Mother
Image of Erma Bombeck
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.
- Erma Bombeck
Collection: Mother
Image of Wes  Moore
My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.
- Wes Moore
Collection: Mother
Image of Adlai E. Stevenson
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
Collection: Mother
Image of Alison Goodman
You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.
- Alison Goodman
Collection: Mother
Image of Diane Setterfield
My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.
- Diane Setterfield
Collection: Mother
Image of Julie James
Jordan couldn’t keep the smile off her face. “Yeah, I like this guy. He rescued me from a crazed man with a gun, he makes me laugh, and he calls his mother Ma. I’d say he’s a keeper.
- Julie James
Collection: Mother
Image of S.G. Browne
My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.
- S.G. Browne
Collection: Mother
Image of Evan Rachel Wood
You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.
- Evan Rachel Wood
Collection: Mother
Image of E. Nesbit
Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us." Do you really believe that, Mother?" Peter asked quietly. Yes," she said, "I do believe it--almost always--except when I'm so sad that I can't believe anything. But even when I don't believe it, I know it's true--and I try to believe it.
- E. Nesbit
Collection: Mother
Image of S.M. Stirling
Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a ten-dollar hooker around, if he's got any self-respect, much less hurt his own woman. Much less ten times over the mother of his kids. A real man busts his ass to feed his family, fights for them if he has to, dies for them if he has to. And he treats his wife with respect every day of his life, treats her like a queen - the queen of the home she makes for their children.
- S.M. Stirling
Collection: Mother
Image of Dave Pelzer
Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.
- Dave Pelzer
Collection: Mother
Image of Dave Pelzer
David what your mother did to you was wrong. Verry wrong.No child deserves to be treated like that. She's sick.
- Dave Pelzer
Collection: Mother
Image of Jane Welsh Carlyle
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.
- Jane Welsh Carlyle
Collection: Mother
Image of Hugo Hamilton
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.
- Hugo Hamilton
Collection: Mother
Image of Sophie Tucker
Even though I loved the song [My Yiddish Momme] and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was always careful to use it only when I knew the majority of the house would understand Yiddish. However, you didn't have to be a Jew to be moved by 'My Yiddish Momme.' 'Mother' in any language means the same thing.
- Sophie Tucker
Collection: Mother
Image of Jojo Moyes
Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.
- Jojo Moyes
Collection: Mother
Image of Harry Mulisch
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.
- Harry Mulisch
Collection: Mother
Image of Diana Palmer
College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.
- Diana Palmer
Collection: Mother
Image of Patrick Stewart
I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.' They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.
- Patrick Stewart
Collection: Mother
Image of Patrick Stewart
As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.
- Patrick Stewart
Collection: Mother