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When I was younger, I always saw my friends with their mothers and fathers and felt a little jealous of them for having a father close by.
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.
Both my parents worked. So it wasn't like the previous generation where we learned how to cook and bake from our mothers and grandmothers.
So many gay men are mothers to so many young people, me included. I've had gay men who were more mother to me than my own mother ever was.
I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.
At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.
We should be able to carry on our careers and be women and mothers without fearing that if we show a vulnerable side, that will be attacked.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
Many countries do not allow women to convey their nationality to their children - if they are single mothers, the children become stateless.
We know, from our mothers, our sisters, our daughters, our friends, that our strength comes - female strength - comes in all kinds of forms.
I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
Mexico is a very mom-centered culture. You'll find stores open on Father's Day, but never on Mother's Day. For us, mothers are very important.
I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.
I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
We should be encouraging moms to breastfeed their infants, not discouraging it by unfairly judging and discriminating against nursing mothers.
I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandmothers by the time their application is reviewed.
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.
As you grow older, you learn to appreciate all the artistry. I'm actually on my way back to the blues, you know, that my mothers and fathers liked.
I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
For me as a mom, not an allocated player, there have been some years that have been a difficult journey because NWSL doesn't really support mothers.
I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their mothers or what, I don't know.
I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.
All across the country, the Women's March inspired doctors and teachers and mothers to become activists and organizers and, yes, candidates for office.
I hope all the kids out there who don't like listening to their mothers, who yell and scream at them, that moms are always right just so you guys know.
The truth is that no matter how old we are, as long as our mothers are alive, we want our mother. And it's a very powerful relationship if it's healthy.
A lot of first-time mothers worry about how they will cope. But I'm more patient than I thought I would be even though there are good days and bad days.
There are proven health benefits for both babies and mothers who breastfeed, and it's unfortunate that it still carries an unfair stigma in our society.
An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.
A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.
I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who are mothers.
A woman will always be made to feel like a criminal, whatever choice she makes, however hard she tries. Mothers feel like criminals. Non-mothers do, too.
'Workin' Moms,' obviously, is about mothers who also work. But we're also expected to remain graceful when we return to work, and that's just impossible.
We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
When they do actually get pregnant, most expectant mothers understandably keep the whole thing a secret because of how fragile the first four months can be.
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other's power - and underestimate their own.
Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.
We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.
There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.