#moth

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch. ↗

— Karen Maezen Miller

#life #motherhood #parenting #life

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#before #better #day #most #mother

My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic. ↗

— Aaron Sanchez

#biggest influence #country #critic #cuisine #far

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#any #career #choices #grandmothers #limited

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#call #choose #consciously #control #does

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly). ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#back #dire #drives #factory #goes

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#during #father #hole #late #left

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#great man #had #man #mother #never

Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#grandmother #heroes-of-olympus #humor #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #son-of-neptune

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#asylums #away #children #filled #home