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Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who… — Kristin Davis
They say our mothers really know how to push our buttons - because they installed them — Robin Williams
All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily… — Herman Melville
I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us.… — Henrik Ibsen
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue… — Philip Roth
Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our… — Caroline Knapp
We have nothing to fear but our mothers. — Anne Taintor
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying… — John Greenleaf Whittier
We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker… — John Greenleaf Whittier
I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always… — Marguerite Duras
We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us. — Vera Farmiga
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they… — Anna Quindlen
For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in,… — Sheryl Sandberg
Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose,… — Kerry Washington
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never… — Alice Walker
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. — Alice Walker
For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers… — Saul Williams
A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in… — M. Russell Ballard
The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in… — Mitch Albom
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary. — Lisa See
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. — Marguerite Duras
How could I say to Him: Blessed be Thou, Almighty, Master of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured day and… — Elie Wiesel
We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping,… — Kelly Corrigan
For we think back through our mothers if we are women. — Virginia Woolf

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