Wives And Mothers Quotes

• Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Mother, Children, Home

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• No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

  Harold MacMillan

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895). The same lines appear, as a dialogue between Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby, in A Woman of No Importance, act 2 (1893).

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• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  Gift from the Sea ch. 3 (1955)

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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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

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• A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

  Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)

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• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Family, Mothers Day

  Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Family, Sister

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• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Family, Mom

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

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• Most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

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

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

  Nancy Astor

  Husband, Drinking, Beer

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• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

  Francis Bacon

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Marriage and the Single Life'

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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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• The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Girl, Mother, Women

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• My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Mother, Wife, Joy

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• I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

  Mary MacLane

  Mother, Wife, Happy Wife

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.129, Petrarca Press

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• Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Mother, Wife, My Own

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• Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Teacher, Careers

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• Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mother, Girlfriend, Wife

  Source: www.elle.com

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• In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

  Dani Shapiro

  Mother, Wife, Desire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility is completely unselfish. We want to protect, to spare those of whom we are fond. We forget that, regardless of the motive, the results of such action are almost always destructive and unproductive.

  Hortense Odlum

  Mother, Responsibility, Wife

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• my belonging to relief society has renewed, strengthened, and committed me to be a better wife and mother and daughter of God. my heart has been enlarged with gospel understanding and with love of the Savior and what He's done for me. so to you, dear sisters, i say: come to relief society! it will fill your homes with love and charity; it will nurture and strengthen you and your families. your home needs your righteous heart.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Daughter, Mother, Home

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• And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Class, Wife

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mother, Mean, Men

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