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Mothers Quotes by Anne Lamott
- 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…
- Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends,…
- Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is,…
- Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially…
More Mothers Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood
- I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. — Erykah Badu
- A mother who is really a mother is never free. — Honore de Balzac
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
- I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk. — Tyra Banks
- Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. — Ellen Barkin
- Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility… — Evan Bayh
- TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I… — Roseanne Barr
- The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes. — Ezra Taft Benson