Mothers Day Quotes - Page 9

• I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

  Steven Moffat

  Inspiring, Reducing, Heard

  "'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.

  Wallace Shawn

  Inspiring, Believe, People

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• No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Inspiring, Country, War

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• We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

  James Levine

  Inspiring, Men, Issues

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• We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

  Francis Maude

  Inspiring, Home, Thinking

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• Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

  Kristin Davis

  Inspiring, Girl, Feminist

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

  Jimmy Carl Black

  Inspiring, Thinking, Stuff

  Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

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• I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

  William Trevor

  Inspiring, Motherhood, Thinking

  William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.145, Penguin

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• If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Inspiring, Father, Tragedy

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Mom, Growing Up, Believe

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• As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.

  Kristin Hannah

  Family, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.609, Ballantine Books

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