#mothers

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. ↗

— Tori Amos

#everything #just #mothers #shatter #start

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#grew #i #line #long #long line

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#guilt #mothers #sacrifice #experience

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For example, mothers teach you manners. And I absolutely did not learn any of those rules and regulations. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#absolutely #any #biggest #did #example

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#good #good reason #know #love #most

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#before #blame #fathers #juliet #know

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#bad #bad people #behavior #blamed #culture

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#great #housewives #large #mothers #off

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother. ↗

— Francis Maude

#good #good mother #home #like #married

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#fault #kill #mothers #sexism #women