Accepted Quote by Maya Angelou

“But she could not breathe long on the heights; there had been nothing in her training to develop any continuity of moral strength: what…

— Edith Wharton

Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.

— Bess Truman

My mother was from an entrepreneurial family and very creative. She always pushed me to take risks, to do things I wouldn't have thought…

— Gillian Tans

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that…

— Betty Friedan

The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.

— Charlotte Mason

My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she…

— Maria Edgeworth

And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a dutiful girl…

— Patrick O'Brian

“It is not biology alone but heroism too that drives women to find the will and grit and creativity to put one’s own impulses…

— Naomi Wolf

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.

— Marie Osmond

One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the…

— Robert Fulghum

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain…

— Robert Rauschenberg

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didnt always know how to be the nurturing…

— Amy Tan