#mothers

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#either #emotional #fathers #mothers #reserved

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

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs. ↗

— Barack Obama

#battle #candidate #families #fathers #frustration

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#babies #because #cause #did #fault

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

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#feminism #hate #love #marriage #married-life

One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#courage

The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#hope #inspirational #mothers #stars #strength