Mother Quote by Audre Lorde Download Open image ““Mother loosen my tongue or adorn me with a lighter burden”” — Audre Lorde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mother Parenting
“My mother sighed, making me feel that I was placing an intolerable burden on her, and yet making me resent having to feel this… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“Only compliments on my exceptional mothering skills. I’ve wondered if her tongue didn’t bleed from biting it at the many mistakes I’m sure she… — Guideposts Copy Share Image
“Something, someone, cut off her head, yanked out her tongue. My mother is a middle-aged woman, a middle-class woman, a woman of moderate intelligence… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
“Hurting a mother is one thing. She might trip you up, push you down, throw dirt on you and spit on you and even… — Niedria D. Kenny Copy Share Image
(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“My mother's hand strokes my cheek and I don't push it away as I would in wakefulness, never wanting her to know how much… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I adore my mother, but I fear for her. She seems helpless, caught in the vortex of my father's dark moods and unpredictable behavior.… — Kristen Iversen Copy Share Image
“To My Mother You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once more The… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“When you have done all that you can do, A true Mother will always stick by you. You may think sometimes that she is… — Carl Busby Sr Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
