Dinner table Quote by Gwenn Wright

“It wasn't so much that my mother always had to have her own way; it was more that if you disagreed with her, the…

— James Scudamore

“It was all very well occupying the moral high ground on electoral reform, but what really mattered, she thought, was how you treated your…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“We shouldn’t be talking of politics. Women ought to leave such matters to their husbands.”

— Ken Follett

“Generally speaking, it is injudicious for ladies to attempt arguing with gentlemen on political or financial topics. All the information that a woman can…

— Samuel Orchart Beeton

“And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it will be…

— Gwenn Wright

“Mothers can be so dense. Just act like you approve of what we're doing. We'll soon do the exact opposite, just to spite you.”

— Cat Clarke

“My point is that you know how your mother is. She gets all these ideas in her head about how it is going to…

— Electa Graham

“In politics, if you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman”

— Margaret Thatcher

“...once becoming a mother, a woman might be radicalized in her feminism. She had a greater stake in saving the earth from male politicians.…

— Erica Jong

“I don’t think my father’s issue was with my mother in particular. He just didn’t like women. He thought they were stupid, inconsequential, irritating.…

— Gillian Flynn

I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.

— Chelsea Clinton

“Politics is an all-consuming mistress that can destroy your family life, warp your personality, and wreck your health.”

— Herman E. Talmadge