#mother

Necessity, the mother of invention. ↗

— George Farquhar

#mother #necessity

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#because #course #elijah #god #honorable

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#dresses #get #grandmother #heels #high

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother! ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#arc #grandmother #her #hurry #i

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#father #grew #i #looks #mother

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice. ↗

— Susan Chira

#burden #consistent #gift #most #motherhood

I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests. ↗

— Lois Capps

#cannot #chemotherapy #children #denying #how

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day. ↗

— Angela Carter

#been #carrying #day #declared #doctor

My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable. ↗

— Sherilyn Fenn

#believing #grew #like #love #many

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#four-letter #mother #tolerate #won #words