#mother

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#humor #mother #family

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. ↗

— Rita Dove

#could #ends #exciting #exciting thing #father

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

#define #i #me #mother #much

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. ↗

— Alice Walker

#flawed #gift #greatest #greatest gift #hidden

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#difficult #motherhood #rewarding

Night is the mother of thoughts. ↗

— John Florio

#night #thoughts

I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#better #better mother #fortunately #human #human being

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ↗

— Alice Walker

#found #garden #i #mother #my own

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people. ↗

— Alice Walker

#black #despair #enough #entirely #essential

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#film star #huge #international #intimidating #more