Good Mother Quotes - Page 4

• To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.188, Booklassic

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• I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Mother, Knows

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• I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

  Sheena Easton

  Mother, Smart, Taken

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• I'm raising my daughter with her grandparents in the picture, and that feels good.

  Paula Cole

  Mother, Daughter, Grandparent

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• Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mom, Mother, Powerful

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• The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

  J. Ogden Armour

  Marriage, Daughter, Mother

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• Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Mother, Habit

  Berthold Auerbach (1896*). “On the Heights”

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• It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Exercise

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• 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.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Mom, Mother, Worry

  Adriana Trigiani (2001). “Big Cherry Holler: A Big Stone Gap Novel”, p.278, Random House

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• The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.35, BookBaby

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Christian, Mother, Buddhist

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• I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.

  Alexa Vega

  Mother, Lines, Strict

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• Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

  Andy Van Slyke

  Mother, Defense, Underrated

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• Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

  Cissy Houston

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Cissy Houston on Whitney: 'She was raised well, she knew better' than to use drugs" by Randee Dawn, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Mother, Thinking, Nuclear Families

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mother, Strong, Children

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mother, Needs, France

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• It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or the 'good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.

  Annette Bening

  Girl, Mother, Children

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I was raised by a really good mother.

  Dean Winters

  Mother, Thinking, Raised

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• 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.

  Charlotte Mason

  Mom, Mother, Home

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alice Randall

  Mother, Artist, Love Is

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• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, Wine, Reality

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• As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Mother, Osiris

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• A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

  Gaspard Mermillod

  Relationship, Mothers Day, Mom

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• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Smile, Spiritual

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