Young women especially have something invested in being nice people,
and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not
a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
Fay Weldon, British Novelist
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's
own Trojan horse.
Rebecca West
Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is
their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
Oscar Wilde
A mother's
heart is always with her children.
Proverb
He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
English Proverb
A mother understands what a child does not say.
Jewish Proverb Sayings
God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers
Jewish Proverb Sayings
A busy mother makes slothful daughters.
Portuguese Proverb Sayings
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Spanish Proverb Sayings
Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness
that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone
is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.
Emily James Putnam
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling,
erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking;
a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes,
swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred
son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
Adrienne Rich
