#mothers

David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#asked #chain #code #could #david

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#breakdown #children #compassionate #divided #each

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#after #babies #best #doing #fathers

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#career #food #four #groups #guilt

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.' ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#hope #i #little #little girls #look

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead. ↗

— Augustus Y. Napier

#certain #certain ways #children #dictates #even

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills. ↗

— Tom DeLay

#birth control #causes #control #evolution #into

*marissa tries to get her single, working mother's attention by suggesting something outrageous, to which mom replies:* 'You're a smart girl. Use your head and avoid any guy who reminds you of your father. ↗

— Camille Noe Pagán

#fathers #humor #mothers #parenting #art

I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful. ↗

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

#mothers #mums #smile #smiles #beauty

Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change? ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#mothers #change