Bundles Quote by Valerie Solanas

A male can be a boy, a man, a love/husband, a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather, but they don't have any knowledge what's happening…

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.

— Willa Holland

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

— Camille Paglia

“The son knows about himself as a masculine figure through the eyes of the mother, not the eyes of the father.”

— George Kohlrieser

For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest…

— Judith Viorst

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

— H. L. Mencken

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

— Pete Townshend

“I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to…

— Le Guin Ursula

“The child starts out by being attached to his mother as "the ground of all being." He feels helpless and needs the all-enveloping love…

— Erich Fromm

However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks the cradlerules…

— Frank Pittman

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

— Raj Kapoor

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton