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Every Mother is a working mother.
(Slogan, U.S.)
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I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.
(Cher (20th century), U.S. entertainer and actoress. As quoted in The Mother Book, by Liz Smith (1978).)
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Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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Remember that every son had a mother
whose beloved son he was,
and every woman had a mother
whose beloved son she wasn't.
(Marge Piercy (20th century), U.S. writer. "Doing It Differently," Circles on the Water (1892).)
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A mother, who is really a mother, is never free.
(Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist. Renée in a letter to Louise, in Letters of Two Brides (Mémoires de Deux Jeunes Mariées), in La Presse (1841-1842), Souverain (1842), included in the Scènes de la Vie Privée in the Comédie humaine (1845, trans. by George Saintsbury, 1971).)
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Seeking in one place always another,
And travelling further from mother, from mother....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The house on the edge of the serious wood.")
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This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 267, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, "Woman and Child," aphorism 387, "Maternal Kindness," (1878).)
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Whether your kindness, mother,
Is mother of silences.
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Seasons of the Soul.")
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"O I have killed my hawk so good,
Mother, mother;
(Unknown. Edward (l. 5-6).
OxBB. Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother—both the mother without and the mother within. A mid-life daughter may reengage with a mother or put new controls on care and set limits to love. But whatever she does, her child's history is never finished.
(Terri Apter (20th century), British social psychologist and author. Secret Paths, ch. 9 (1995).)
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