Quotes by mothers

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  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer 1854-1900

  

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  All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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  Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer 1854-1900

  

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  Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
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  John F. Kennedy
  American politician 1917-1963

  

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  Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
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  Alice Hoffman
  American novelist 1952-

  

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  Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
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  Norman Schwarzkopf
  American general 1934-2012

  

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  A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
  
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  Alice Walker
  American Author, Critic 1944-

  

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  And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
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  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  American Author 1906-

  

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  By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
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  Bob Dylan
  American musician 1941-

  

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  Come mothers and fathers
  Throughout the land
  And don't criticize
  What you can't understand
  Your sons and your daughters
  Are beyond your command
  Your old road is rapidly agin'.
  Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
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  Anna Quindlen
  American author and journalist 1952-

  

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  Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
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  Calvin Trillin
  American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet 1935-

  

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  Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
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  Allan Bloom
  American writer 1930-1992

  

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  Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
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  Brendan Behan
  Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright 1923-1964

  

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  God forgive us—but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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  Alice Walker
  American Author, Critic 1944-

  

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  How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
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  Angelina Grimke
  American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights 1805-1879

  

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  I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
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  Marguerite Duras
  French author and filmmaker 1914-

  

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  I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.