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• I think we all want to be Gisele Bündchen. Whether it inspires. Not only for her beauty. Successful she is, is a businesswoman, is an activist, a good mother is a strong woman and a good example to all the powerful women . Everybody wants to know what she does or says, rather than what she wears.

  Erin Heatherton

  Mother, Strong Women, Powerful

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• There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Mother, Heart, Division

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.82, U of Nebraska Press

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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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• I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Mother, Example, Family Life

  "All hail the Queen". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.

  Heather Mills

  Mother, Good Person, Persons

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• If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Children, Husband

  “The centre of my universe” by Ayelet Waldman, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2005.

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• A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Love, Mother, Art

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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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• I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

  Patricia Heaton

  Mother, Perfectly Good, Shopping

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• I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.

  Emily Mortimer

  Mother, Proud, Feels

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• And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Eye, World

  Joyce Carol Oates (1990). “I Lock My Door Upon Myself”, New York : Ecco Press

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• A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

  Jane Fonda

  Mother, Exercise, Dieting

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• You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the good mother, the kind of hippie painter, sweet and cute mother has no love for her daughter really.

  Ellen Barkin

  Cute, Daughter, Mother

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

  James Cook

  Mother, Important, Roles

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

  George Herbert

  Mother, Giving

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• Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

  Sheena Easton

  Mother, Achievement, Proud

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• I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him.

  Sheena Easton

  Mother, Smart, Taken

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• Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?

  Julianna Baggott

  Mother, Giving, Stories

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Links, Good Work

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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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• Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Grief, Eye

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 76

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• [My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother.

  Michael Chabon

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son”, p.17, Harper Collins

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