Wives And Mothers Quotes - Page 3

• I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.

  Marcia Cross

  Mother, Mr Right, Wife

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• a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

  Barbara Holland

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Mother, Wife

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• The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Mom, Mother, Wife

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mother, Honesty, Wife

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• Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.

  Tina Brown

  Mother, Country, Responsibility

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• When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mother, Wife, Wish

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mother, Real, Home

  "The Equal Rights Amendment Falters, and Phyllis Schlafly Is the Velvet Fist Behind the Slowdown". people.com. April 28, 1975.

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• While the secular world pushes woman to find her identity in herself as a sex object, the popular teachings in the Church, equally mistaken, encourage woman to find her identity in her roles as wife and mother rather than in her status as a person in Christ, a daughter complete in Him.

  Leanne Payne

  Daughter, Mother, Sex

  Leanne Payne (1995). “The Healing Presence: Curing the Soul Through Union with Christ”, p.65, Baker Books

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• I would like especially to mention you, the women, wives and mothers of Paraguay, who at great cost and sacrifice were able to lift up a country defeated, devastated and laid low by an abominable war. God bless your perseverance, God bless and encourage your faith, God bless the women of Paraguay, the most glorious women of America.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Country, Perseverance

  "Pope laments 'gangrene' of corruption plaguing 'all peoples of the world'". www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2015.

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• A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you are, find yourself, and live in that for a minute before you become somebody's wife and mother.

  Sevyn Streeter

  Mother, Kids, Wife

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.

  Pam Brown

  Family, Mother, Heart

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• Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.

  Mary Livermore

  Mother, Wife, Titles

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• Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

  Patsy Cline

  Mother, Crazy, Wife

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• Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.

  Harriet Lerner

  Mother, Son, Speaking Up

  Harriet Lerner (2012). “Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled Up”, p.145, Penguin

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• My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

  Joan Collins

  Beautiful, Mother, Giving Up

  "Joan Collins: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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