Quotations on / about mom

My mom says I'm her sugarplum.
My mom says I'm her lamb.
My mom says I'm completely perfect
Just the way I am.
My mom says I'm a super-special wonderful terrific little guy.
My mom just had another baby.
Why?

(Judith Viorst (20th century), U.S. author and poet. If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries (1981).)
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My own brother a goddamn shit-sucking vampire. You wait 'til Mom finds out, buddy.

(Jeffrey Boam (b. 1949), U.S. screenwriter, and Joel Schumacher. Sam (Corey Haim), The Lost Boys, after his brother reveals he is a vampire (1987).)
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I know how to do anything—I'm a mom.

(Roseanne Barr Arnold (20th century), U.S. actoress and comedian. The Last Word, ed. Carolyn Warner, ch. 1 (1992).)
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Living by basic good-mothering guidelines enables a mom to blend the responsibilities of parenthood with its joys; to know when to stand her ground and when to be flexible; and to absorb the lessons of the parenting gurus while also trusting her inner voice when it reasons that another cookie isn't worth fighting over, or that her child won't suffer irreparable trauma if, once in a while, Mom puts her own needs first.

(Sue Woodman (20th century), U.S. writer and broadcaster. "Seven Habits of Smart Moms," McCalls (1995).)
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After your baby is born, guilt can grow into a monster that sits on your shoulder and whispers into your ear, "Mirror, mirror on the wall—who's the guiltiest of them all?" The answer is working mothers. Every time you can't calm your screaming baby, the guilt monster will tell you that if you were a true mom, an at- home mom, you would know what to do. . . . Everytime something goes wrong at work, it will tell you that it's your fault for trying to be a "supermom."

(Jean Marzollo (20th century), U.S. author. Your Maternity Leave, ch. 3 (1989).)
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Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their mom and pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.

(Stella Chess (20th century), U.S. psychiatrist, and Jane Whitbread, U.S. writer. Daughters, ch. 6 (1978).)
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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

(Nelson Algren (1909-1981), U.S. author. Quoted in Newsweek (New York, July 2, 1956).)
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Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.

(Maya Angelou (b. 1928), African American author and performer. As quoted in I Dream a World, by Brian Lanker (1989).)
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As long as the "woman's work" that some men do is socially devalued, as long as it is defined as woman's work, as long as it's tacked onto a "regular" work day, men who share it are likely to develop the same jagged mouth and frazzled hair as the coffee-mug mom. The image of the new man is like the image of the supermom: it obscures the strain.

(Arlie Hochschild (20th century), U.S. sociologist. The Second Shift, ch. 3 (1989).)
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Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record—Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages—you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

(Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. First published in Mother Jones (1988). "The Great Syringe Tide," The Worst Years of Our Lives (1991).)
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