Immaculate conception Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“Here was my mother, one of the Top Five pious women of the district, coming out with the unbelievable "God's great and all but".…

— Anna Burns

“Well, well, I call her ‘little’ because her mother’s name is Mary. But, as I was saying, she takes Mary in a coaxing sort…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I swear the man could seduce the holy mother!”

— Leigh Ann Edwards

“Was that all her religious beliefs had ever been then, a set of precepts so deeply inculcated in her that they became automatic, even…

— Hillary Jordan

“My mother had become a obsession for me, a religion, and the very thought of referring to another woman as Mother seems sacrilegious, a…

— Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

“She admired all these women who were mothers. My God, you had to be devilishly careful not to say the wrong thing.”

— Dörthe Binkert

“I understood and appreciated the miracle of birth, but I did not understand motherhood, nor did I appreciate the oveselling of it. To me…

— Anonymous

“In Sunday school, they made it sound like the women of the Bible were a bunch of pious schoolmarms—but nothing could be further from…

— Sam Torode

“An act so vile, even unforgivable from a mother.”

— Soroosh Shahrivar

“If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“It is often said, inside the Church and out of it, that there is something grotesque about lectures on the sexual life when delivered…

— Christopher Hitchens