Quotes with mothers

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  • Augustus Hare It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Napoleon Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men are what their mothers made them.
    The Conduct of Life (1860) Fate
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carrie Fisher Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • James Watson One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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  • John Augustus Shedd Simply having children does not make mothers.
    John Augustus Shedd
    American writer (1859 - 1928)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same - and most mothers kiss and scold together.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Betty Friedan Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Camille Paglia Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bob Ney The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Angela Carter The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Arianna Huffington The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich 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
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Bernardine Dohrn There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • Aristotle This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Will Durant Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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