Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Atheist, Tombstone

• That would be the frontispiece. This was a picture of my mother and me coming out of the United States Supreme Court, with fecal matter smeared across our faces. They wrapped it in wax paper so that when I received it I'd get the full impact of the message. Though I haven't gotten anything quite that original lately, there's still never a dull moment in my mailbox.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Impact, Matter

• Let's distinguish between freedom and equality. The modern American woman may be more liberated sexually than her mother was, but I don't think she enjoys a bit more sexual equality. The American male continues to use her sexually for one thing: a means to the end of his own ejaculation.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Mean, Thinking

• One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Abortion, All Time

  "UnGodly: The Passions, Torments, and Murder of Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair". Book by Ted Dracos, 2003.

• I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for a long time now. Well, I don't believe in God either, but every day in school I'm forced to say prayers, and I feel like a hypocrite. Why should I be compelled to betray my beliefs?" I couldn't answer him.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Mother, Atheist, Prayer

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