#mother

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#before #came #domestic #finishing #found

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#counted #during #father #first #great

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. ↗

— Rebecca West

#being #horse #like #motherhood #own

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents. ↗

— Jack White

#friends #grandparents #had #high #high school

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#being #comes #crusade #first #husband

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive. ↗

— Wayne Wonder

#be careful #careful #friends #go #grandmother

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#art #civilization #mother #our #own