Quotes 41 till 60 of 384.
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And, because she so illumined and glorified her clan,
She brought to every father, every mother through the empire,
Happiness when a girl was born rather than a boy.Source: The Song of Long Sorrow -
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.
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As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
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As mathematics had been my best subject at school, my parents proposed - and I accepted - studies at the University of Lund in mathematics, statistics, and economics. The choice of the latter subject is said to be due to the fact that at the age of five years, I was very fond of calculating the cost of the various cakes my mother used to bake.
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At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.
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Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.
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Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
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Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.
Source: In ongenade (1999) -
Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
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Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.
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Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
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