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“My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own my eyes, though she frequently directs their focus. My mother does not own my mind, though she yields great influence upon it. My heart, however, she owns completely, for it was hers the day I was born.”
Richelle E. Goodrich“Happy Mother's day .... Its mothering Sunday in England and I just wanted to take a min to honor all the mothers out there, Well done. It doesn't matter if you doing it alone, or you have some one the fact is you still there still trying so hats off to you .. Happy mothers day also to the dads who play both the role of mom and dad to their children. You too are just as amazing.”
miss Gath“Mother is water.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem“Mother was anchor. Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some boats eventually floated ashore. And some boats, like me, seemed to float farther and farther from land.”
Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea“My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.”
Irene Tomkinson, Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family“There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.”
Stephanie Bishop, The Other Side of the World“Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.”
Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel“A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood as natural, a patriarchal ideology of mothering locks women into biological reproduction, and denies them identities and selfhood outside mothering.”
Evelyn Nakano Glenn“What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.”
Barbara Delinsky, Escape“Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother thinks was merely cute may have been lethal.”
Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg