I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I would like to express a big CONGRATULATIONS to all the single Mothers out there on all their hard work and devotion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven,… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world.” — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
My sister-in-law, my mother, grandmother, and the entire family have been the biggest support for me. — Vijay Shankar Copy Share Image
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Often, ageing has more to do with your brain than your body. Some people become old and jaded at 25, and some,… — Suhasini Mulay Copy Share Image
My mother and father had to change every clock in the house manually and they had three small children. Yet I never… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Women most certainly carry a more sympathetic heart in the traditional, classic sense the mother archetype. They have been given the role… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“The mother is always at fault. so is the wife, really. Women are supposed to control men, isn't that how it goes?… — Sarah A. Denzil Copy Share Image
When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I've got older, I can… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“While Mary brushed my pistachio silk carriage dress, Mama tugged the laces of my corset as tight as they would go. She… — Susan Dennard Copy Share Image
“My son the general!" King Tiberias booms, his proud voice cutting through the din of the party. For a second, when he… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that… — Kliff Kingsbury Copy Share Image
My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“You will always be the Matriarch—the Queen of Hearts. Your hand rocked my cradle, and you ruled my world.” — Dipa Sanatani Copy Share Image
“Mothers don't cry at weddings because they're sentimental-- xxx Mothers cry because they know how hard it's going to be.” — Sean Stewart Copy Share Image
I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I dreamt of being a runner. My mother and father always told me to go after what… — Dutee Chand Copy Share Image
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“It’s a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother,… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“My world was a sunny sky before him, a pretty picture my mother drew for me, and he painted it all black… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“Mothers observe all, absorb all, give all, forgive all, offer all, suffer all, feel all, heal all, hope for all, pray for… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
You must be a terrible burden to your mother. I am feeling so sorry for her not to have a proper daughter."… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
“I think my mother found her mother-in-law entertaining, and in a person who entertains us, there is much we forgive.” — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds. — Karen Kijewski Copy Share Image
Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I'm going to do something I want to do."I always did if for my family,for… — Thomas Gambino Copy Share Image
My mother was not very good about keeping clothes; if they were outdated, she'd give them to an aunt or cousins or… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
“Fuck you," said Czernobog. "Fuck you and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being played by a Scandinavian… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image