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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Men are what their mothers made them.”
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Anna Jarvis: “A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother -- and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment.”  more
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Michael Levine: “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
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Sophia Loren: “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
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Anna Garlin Spencer: “To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.”
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Theodore Roosevelt: “No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night.”
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Adrienne Rich: “Certainly the mother serves the interests of patriarchy: she exemplifies in one person religion, social conscience, and nationalism. Institutional motherhood revives and renews all other institutions.”
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Will Rogers: “Mother's Day, it's beautiful thought, but it's somebody's hurtin' conscience that thought of the idea. It was someone who had neglected their mother for years, and then they figured out: I got to do something about Momma. And knowing Momma was that easy, they figured, 'we'll give her a day, and it will be all right with Momma.' Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364. See?”
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W. E. B. Du Bois: “All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.”
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Barbara De Angelis: “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
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Wilma Mankiller: “One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me.”
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Alice Miller: “A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.”
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Deborah Tannen: “Part of the reason [motherly advice] bugs us as daughters is because our mothers are so powerful in our lives. They loom like giants. The reason mothers keep at it is because they're so powerless. They cannot get you to do what is so obvious to them you should do.”
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Marilyn French: “To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”
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Rebecca West: “Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.”
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Theodore Hesburgh: “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
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Sam Levenson: “The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. ”
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Dorothy Parker: “The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.”
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Alice Walker: “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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Marcia Muller: “She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions -- and in the end doing them irreparable harm.”
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Pamela Glenconner: “Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.”
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Colette: “Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.”
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Jill Bensley: “The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids.”
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Margaret Sanger: “When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”
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Marge Piercy: “With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.”  more
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Maureen Hawkins: “Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.”
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Amy Tan: “Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.”  more
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Tenneva Jordan: “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.”
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Golda Meir: “At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.”
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