#mother

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#every #man #mother-in-law #proud #successful

But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#daughter #early #eight #especially #go

It's very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it's also good for her. But it's definitely good for me. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#definitely #good #healing #her #hope

My dad once told me that Winstone Churchill said that Russia was riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. According to my dad, Churchill had been talking about my mother. This was before the divorce, and he said it half-bitterly, half-respectfully. Because even when he hated her, he admired her. I think he would have stayed with her forever, trying to figure out the mystery. He was a puzzle solver, the kind of person who likes theorems, theories. X always had to equal something. It couldn't just be X. To me, my mother wasn't that mysterious. She was my mother. Always reasonable, always sure of herself. To me, she was about as mysterious as a glass fo water. She knew what she wanted; she knew what she didn't want. And that was to be married to my father. I wasn't sure if it was that she fell our of love or if it was that she just never was. in love, I mean. ↗

— Jenny Han

#husband-and-wife #mother-and-daughter #p #equality

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#people

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#bed #child #corrupting #corruption #father

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half. ↗

— Gracie Allen

#enough #get #had #half #just

Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible. ↗

— Prince Harry

#difference #driven #father #grandparents #grown

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#ever #good #good mother #grocery #grocery shopping

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#craved #during #four #hand #holding