#mothers

It is at this moment that I realize the best thing I ever did in my life was to marry this woman. She is willing to give up her life for her child. I know most parents would do the same. But how many mothers would give up everything that they love, everything that they will ever be able to do in the future for the “possibility and not the guarantee” of getting their child better. Now reduce the odds of success to less than 1%. How many mothers are still standing? She is. ↗

— John Passaro

#mothers-love #life

North is a powerful man, and you're still connected to him." Flo frowned. "Probably sexual memory, those Capricorns are insatiable. Well, you know. Sea Goat. And of course, you're a Fish. You'll end up back in bed with him." Andie slammed the car door. "You know what I'd like for Christmas, Flo? Boundaries. You can gift me early if you'd like. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#mothers-and-daughters #relationships #sex #humor

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#funny-and-random #mothers #names #sobriquet #sons

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life. ↗

— Shaun White

#call #date #daughters #e-mails #get

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

In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing. ↗

— Amy Grant

#also #because #being #break #during

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#me #mel #mothers #mum #obviously

I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#benefit #bring #championing #children #how

All mothers go through the exact same things. ↗

— Angie Harmon

#go #mothers #same #things #through

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#come #doing #eighties #even #even now