#mothers

I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, that acrobatic feat of love where everything is turned upside down and yet they are both still able to keep their balance. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#mothers #travel

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#women

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. ↗

— C.S. Forester

#argument #drinking #gin #mothers #alcohol

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#mothers #motherhood

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#kiss #kissing #love #most #mothers

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#children #fathers #mothers #own #their

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#crime #fear #immigrants #increase #more

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young. ↗

— George Thorogood

#because #bring #coming #daughters #grandfathers

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#change #change things #feminists #first #fought