Mother Quote by Julie Otsuka Download Open image “Women are weak, but mothers are strong.” — Julie Otsuka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mother Parenting Strong Weak
Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go, empower their childrenof either gender to feel free and whole. But weak women, women who feel and act like victims of something or other, may make their children feel responsible for taking care of them, and they can… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else. — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
A man cannot be as strong as a woman in bearing pain that is why she is a Woman and a Mother! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In early autumn the farm recruiters arrived to sign up new workers, and the War Relocation Authority allowed many of the young men and women to go out and help harvest the crops. Some came back wearing the same shoes they'd left in and swore they would never go out there again. They said they'd been shot at. Spat on.… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share
And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“We praised them when they were kind to others but told them not to expect to be rewarded for their good deeds. We scolded… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“SOME SAID that the men had been put on trains and sent far away, over the mountains, to the coldest part of the country. Some said they were enemy collaborators and would be deported within days. Some said they had been shot. Many of us dismissed the rumors as rumors but found ourselves spreading them—wildly, recklessly, and seemingly against our… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share
“They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan. STILL” — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“Don't touch me," said the girl. "I want to be sick by myself." "That's impossible," said her mother. She continued to rub her back… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day. We were the best breed of worker they had ever hired in their… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“They learned that they should always call the restaurant first. Do you serve Japanese?” — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“And if they ask you someday what it was I most wanted to say, please tell them, if you would, it was this: I'm… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“Many of us had lost everything and left saying nothing at all. All of us left wearing white numbered identification tags tied to our… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
“Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had been sent back in our father's place. That's not him, we said to our mother, That's not him, but our mother no longer seemed to hear us..."Did you..." she said. "Every day," he replied. Then he got down on his… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share
“ladies began boycotting our fruit stands because they were afraid our produce might be tainted with arsenic. Insurance companies canceled our insurance. Banks froze our bank accounts. Milkmen stopped delivering milk to our doors. “Company orders,” one tearful milkman explained. Children took one look at us and ran away like frightened deer. Little old ladies clutched their purses and froze… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share
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 LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share
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
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
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
