Katharine Whitehorn Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Husband, Wish

• I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Men, Years

• Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Son, Daddy

• In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Fate, Plot

  Observations ch. 10 (1970)

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