Quotes by Mother But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible Adriana Trigiani laughter mother children How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. Adrienne Rich daughter mother son 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 mother heart son The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. Adrienne Rich mother war children Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself. Adrienne Rich states realization mother Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery. Adrienne Rich daughter personality mother But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds. Adrienne Rich body mother mind Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other. Adrienne Rich daughter mother two We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both. Adrienne Rich daughter confusion mother But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself. Adrienne Rich mother men children Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him. Adrienne Rich mother men son Her [Mary's] motherhood extends beyond view. In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid: sheltering him, but sheltered in him, forming him, but formed by him ... When she pronounces the words: 'Be it done to me according to thy word', the Mother conceives the mystery from the Trinity, in order to give it to the Son. The Son gives the word back to the Trinity by giving everything he has back to the Father in the Spirit. Then, after the Father has received it again, it is distributed to mankind by means of that extravagant expansioning-the Eucharist and the Holy Spirit. Adrienne von Speyr mother mean father I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother, I was pretty much predominantly raised by women, as they make up most of my family anyway. Aeriel Miranda aunt cousin mother When children are little, they really need you in one way. When they're bigger, they need you as a friend. And balancing motherhood and career makes you both a better mother and a better businesswoman. Aerin Lauder motherhood mother children I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children. Aerin Lauder mother book children My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me. Aerin Lauder mom strong mother Memory is the mother of all wisdom. Aeschylus wisdom mother inspirational The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout. Aeschylus nursing mother children "Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. Aeschylus fathers-day law mother May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. Aeschylus mother morning night «1234567891011»