Good Mother Quotes - Page 2

• A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

  William Watson Purkey

  Mother, Father, Mistake

  William Watson Purkey (2000). “What Students Say to Themselves: Internal Dialogue and School Success”, Corwin

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• Family has always been the most important thing in my life. The only real goal that I ever had was to be a good mother.

  Goldie Hawn

  Family, Mother, Real

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• I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.' If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be

  Charlaine Harris

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• I can be a really good mother because I'm happy.

  Charlize Theron

  Mother, I Can

  Source: wwd.com

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• Be Strong. You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring. My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.

  Sunidhi Chauhan

  Mother, Strong Women, Role Models

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• It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

  James Cook

  Mother, Criminals, Impossible

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• The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.

  George Herbert

  Mother, Giving

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• I'm not a good mother at all.

  Steve Harvey

  Mother

  "Comedian Steve Harvey: Women's standards too low". www.cnn.com. March 23, 2009.

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• I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list.

  Michelle Obama

  Mother, Sacrifice, Thinking

  "Michelle Obama’s tips for being happy, healthy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.today.com. October 5, 2009.

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• I am proud that I am a good mother to my children, a good daughter to my mother, a good sister to my sis (Ashley Judd) and a good wife to my new husband.

  Wynonna Judd

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is, when they were very young, she was not a good mother. She was an unhappy mother. She was an unhappy wife. She had never known what it was to be a good mother. She didn't have a good mother of her own. And so there's a kind of parenting that doesn't happen.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Two, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My interests still are my interests. That doesn't make me a bad mother. I think that makes me a really good mother, because when I go and creatively satisfy myself and those interests, I come home satisfied.

  Charlize Theron

  Mother, Home, Thinking

  Source: wwd.com

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• There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.

  Jane Goodall

  Mother

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• A good mother is protective but not over-protective. She's patient, she's affectionate, she's playful, but above all she is supportive.

  Jane Goodall

  Mother, Supportive, Patient

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth.

  Shailene Woodley

  Mother, Order, Actresses

  Source: www.elle.com

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• No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

  James Cook

  Mother, Important, Roles

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• I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend.

  Suzy Favor Hamilton

  Daughter, Mother, Wife

  Twitter post from Dec 20, 2012

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• Many women assume they can't be good mothers and have challenging careers at the same time, so they might give up trying to do both as they get to a crucial point in their career. Although it can be hard at times, it's important for women to recognize the benefits of working outside the home.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Mother, Giving Up, Home

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• The attempt to be an ideal parent, that is, to behave correctly toward the child, to raise her correctly, not to give to little ortoo much, is in essence an attempt to be the ideal child--well behaved and dutiful--of one's own parents. But as a result of these efforts the needs of the child go unnoticed. I cannot listen to my child with empathy if I am inwardly preoccupied with being a good mother; I cannot be open to what she is telling me.

  Alice Miller

  Mother, Children, Essence

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• Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.

  Elizabeth Debold

  Mother, Children, Women

  Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press

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• Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to tempt the fates. Themoment I felt sure I had everything under control would invariably be the moment right before the principal called to report that one of my sons had just driven somebody's motorcycle through the high school gymnasium.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, School, Fate

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• You need to be able to nurture yourself in order to be a good mother, good at your job, good at servicing your community. I really believe women can do it all, but they can't do it all at the expense of their health, their sleep, and their sense of well-being.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Jobs, Believe

  "The Tavis Smiley SHow", www.pbs.org. March 12, 2013.

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• I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.

  Ann Romney

  Mother, Thinking, Doctors

  "Ann Romney on her battle with multiple sclerosis and the race for the White House". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2015.

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• A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.

  Erin Kelly

  Mother, Children, Your Mom

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• I'm a huge advocate of prayer. I've been praying since I was fifteen years old and the doctor told me I was going to be a mother and I was like "what?" I started praying that day that God would help me do what I needed to do to be a good mother and to raise this baby boy that I was going to be blessed with. I haven't stopped praying in years.

  Cathy Hughes

  Mother, Baby, Prayer

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