#mothers

I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar. ↗

— Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

#food #grandmothers #humor #jewish #food

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#mothers #dating

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. ↗

— Joan Blades

#given #manifesto #motherhood #mothers #need

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#called #heard #i #most #mothers

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler") ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#love #mother #mothers #son #sons

She has given me a way out. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#creativity #growing-up #mothers-and-daughters #art

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#any #career #choices #grandmothers #limited

The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church. ↗

— George Smathers

#children #church #conspirators #destroyed #determine

A mother’s love: the sacred relationship of affording a nanny so as to be tolerated as a granny. ↗

— Bauvard

#love #mothers #retirement #funny

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ↗

— Victoria Secunda

#family