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  • [My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother.

    Mom   Mother   Dad  
    Michael Chabon (2012). “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son”, p.17, Harper Collins
  • I'm a huge advocate of prayer. I've been praying since I was fifteen years old and the doctor told me I was going to be a mother and I was like "what?" I started praying that day that God would help me do what I needed to do to be a good mother and to raise this baby boy that I was going to be blessed with. I haven't stopped praying in years.

    Mother   Baby   Prayer  
  • One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, "You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you."

    Mother Teresa's address at the National Prayer Breakfast (Sponsored by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives), www.ewtn.com. February 3, 1994.
  • The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.

  • And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

    Mother   Eye   World  
    Joyce Carol Oates (1990). “I Lock My Door Upon Myself”, New York : Ecco Press
  • A good mother is irreplaceable.

    Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next”, p.117, Simon and Schuster
  • Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

    Family   Mother   Real  
  • I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

  • When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

    Mom   Mother   Father  
    Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
  • I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 14, 2015
  • I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.

    "Ann Romney on her battle with multiple sclerosis and the race for the White House". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2015.
  • Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.

    Mom   Mother   Home  
    Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
  • Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.

    Mom   Mother   Worry  
    Adriana Trigiani (2001). “Big Cherry Holler: A Big Stone Gap Novel”, p.278, Random House
  • A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.

    Love   Mother   Art  
  • I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

    Mom   Mother   Rags  
    "Sharpton answers Bush in speech". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.
  • There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.

    Source: www.egonzehnder.com
  • I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She was playful. She enjoyed having her babies, as good mothers do.

  • Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

    Mother   Giving   Stories  
    Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.231, Hachette UK
  • I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother.

  • There is no one perfect way to be a good mother... Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children... What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else.

  • Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

    Mother   Wife   Feminist  
    Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”
  • I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.

    Mother   Wife   Want  
    "Peaches Geldof obituary" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2014.
  • You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

    Cute   Daughter   Mother  
  • In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

    Family   Mom   Mother  
    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.35, BookBaby
  • The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

  • Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

    Mother   Artist   Love Is  
  • If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

    “The centre of my universe” by Ayelet Waldman, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2005.
  • I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy—it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.

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