#mothers

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth. ↗

#elizabeth #grandmothers #i #julia #named

The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. ↗

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#children #doll #girl #her #more

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

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#any #children #duties #fulfilling #heart

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#both #brave #close #contrary #culture

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

All my friends' mothers were appalling women. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#friends #mothers #were #women

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#children #just #live #mothers #really

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse. ↗