MOTHERS

If evolution were true, mothers would have more than two hands. Only God gave us eyes in the back of our heads and the power to tune things out.
Courtney S.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Louisa May Alcott

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Amos Bronson Alcott

He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
English Proverbs

A mother understands what a child does not say.
Jewish Proverbs

A mother's heart is always with her children.
Proverbs

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher

God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers
Jewish Proverbs

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.
Norman Douglas

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.
George Eliot

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
Marguerite Duras

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
Barbara Ehrenreich

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

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Spanish Proverbs

A busy mother makes slothful daughters.
Portuguese Proverbs

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

Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
Queen Victoria

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
William Dean Howells

Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.
Emily James Putnam

The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.
John Keble

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
Lin Yn-tang

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

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
Adrienne Rich

God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers.
Jewish Saying

Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
Oscar Wilde

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles -- and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech -- look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.
Philip Roth

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.
Phyllis Mcginley

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

The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
Charlotte P. Gillman

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Source Unknown

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

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
George Eliot

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