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A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.
Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.
Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.
We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.
Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.
I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.
I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.
You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.
My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.
Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.
I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.
Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.
In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.
One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.
My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.
I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.
I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.
As a mother, the things that I wanted for my own four children, I want for all the children of France.
I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.
when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.
Less hatred, more love, less war, more peace, more respect for the Mother Nature and for other people.
It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.
Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.
When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live.
In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.
I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.
There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.
How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?
Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.
How did you know Cassandra was the mother? (Wulf) I know lots of things when I apply myself. (Acheron)
Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later.
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
But I will win and give her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter. -Ying Ying
My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
[On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4:] I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.