#moth

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#against #born #good #good thing #jesus

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#children #doll #girl #her #more

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#guilt #mothers #sacrifice #experience

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen. ↗

— John Wozniak

#even #gifts #guides #happen #me

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#basically #beat #bright #drawn #father

I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#everything #go #happy #heaven #how

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#become #break #cycle #doing #embrace

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids! ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#deal #feelings #guilt #i #i think

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#exercise #guilt #motherhood

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her. ↗

— John Hurt

#anyone #drank #drinks #father #fear