#moth

My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother. ↗

— Kaya Scodelario

#brazilian #brought #cook #culture #english

MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#empowerment-of-women #mother-teresa #poverty #poverty-alleviation #life

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #mother #story #life

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#boyfriends #granddaughters #grandmothers #life #romance

Yes, life could be better. But it could also be worse. Don’t believe me? Allow me introduce you to my mother-in-law.
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— Jarod Kintz

#introduce #introduction #life #mother-in-law #worse

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#mother #truth #love

Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved. ↗

— Kate Samperi

#love

Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her... ↗

— Willa Cather

#love

Your mother never considered giving you up. ↗

— Anne Osterlund

#love

I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love #mother-s-love #love