Inspirational Quotes About Mothers

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” A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ”
– Tenneva Jordan

” Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

” The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.”
– James Fenton

” No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”
– Florida Scott Maxwell

“Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.”
– Betty Rollin

” Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women’s opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.”
– Elaine Heffner

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.”
– James Joyce

” All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”
– Germaine Greer

” Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother’s Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.”
– John Erskine

” All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
– Oscar Wilde

” The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ”
– Unknown

” A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”
– Peter De Vries

” Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson

” God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”
– Jewish Proverbs

“My mother… she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”
– Jodi Picoult

“When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”
– Erma Bombeck

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
– Kristin Hannah

“Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it’s always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.”
– Audrey Niffenegger

“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. ”
– Kristin Hannah

“Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the environment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.”
– Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“The big difference between my mom and me– besides the fact that she is dead normal and I’m a magic-handling freak– is that she’s the real thing. She may have a slight problem seeing other people’s points of view, but she’s honest about it. She’s a brass-bound bitch because she believes she knows best. I’m a brass-bound bitch because I don’t want anyone getting close enough to find out what a whiny little knot of naked nerve endings I really am. ”
– Robin MckInley

“The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son! I don’t have a daughter, but maybe the love of a daughter is the best, too. I am first and foremost me, but right after that, I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be, is me. But the best gift that I will ever have, is being a mother.”
– C. Joybell C.

“My mother always said ‘Don’t bother other people.’ I think that’s good advice.”
– Amy Sedaris

“Girls,” their mother interjected, “you must both stop being strange – it is unattractive. And don’t forget your hats. It would be absolutely the end for me if you two came down with freckles at a time like this.”
– Anna Godbersen

“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father,” she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don’t you think?”
– Jodi Picoult

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

“Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will forever be cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her place, her entire place, beside you. At the present time, this is not yet possible. Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power … that has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more.”
– Marcel Proust

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
– Gail Tsukiyama

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