#mothers

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. ↗

— Will Durant

#less #memory #mothers #penetrates #reasoning

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ↗

— Alice Walker

#how #know #me #mothers #must

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing. ↗

— Gretchen Wilson

#mothers #rivalry #thing

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#become #congress #course #future #government

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#against #crash #drivers #drunk #embarrassed

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#always #appreciated #closeness #criticize #distance

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#because #birth #children #future #give

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#cuts #daughters #down #her #i

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#about #always #children #feel #find

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#carry #comes #key #men #more