- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Quotes
On mothers, their advice, and what stays with us.
Several of these lines trace back to childhood impressions left by a mother's words, whether about appearance, privacy, or simply keeping close watch. For prayer-toned reflections, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both overestimate the other's power - and underestimate their own.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
When evidence emerged that Clinton was a devoted mother, Margaret Carlson writing in 'TIME' found her guilty of 'yuppie overdoting on her daughter.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.
- Burnett
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.
- Neighbor
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who was fantastic. We eventually got our own place, and my mother started learning to cook. But it was also the '70s, so she was very experimental, and, well - thank God we had a dog.
- Vegetables
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- Nov 07, 2020
We go to Italy every winter, and my husband's mother has a bingo party on Christmas. Every woman brings a dish: lentils, cavolo nero, tons of beans, polenta, every type of cheese, bruschetta, fresh vegetables, and local olive oil and wine.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Off to War, Voices of Soldier's Children,' kids from Canada and the United States talk about what it is like when their mother or father goes off to war - and comes home again.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. Who will do that when I'm gone?
- Nov 07, 2020