Single Mother Quotes

• Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

  Evan Bayh

  Mother, Children, Single Mom

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• I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

  Al Sharpton

  Mom, Mother, Rags

  "Sharpton answers Bush in speech". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.

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• Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Mom, Motherhood, Blessing

  "Kelly Cutrone Speaks To Storked!". Interview with Christine Coppa, www.glamour.com. February 23, 2010.

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• A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Men, Average

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• I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

  Sue Townsend

  Birthday, Mother, Children

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• Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Love, Family, Mom

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• It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mothers Day, Mom, Fathers Day

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• The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Family, Mom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

  Rajneesh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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• A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Mom, Mother, Children

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

  Lisa Alther

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

  Bill Richardson

  Single Mom, Struggle, Opportunity

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

  Rajneesh

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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• Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

  Aristotle

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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  If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Mother, Children, Single Mom

  Interview with NBC News Correspondent Sander Vanocur at Hyannis Port, Mass., October 1, 1960.

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• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Single Mom, Thinking

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• I was raised by a single mother.

  Josh Peck

  Mother, Raised

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• Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mom, Mother, Children

  FaceBook post by Alice Hoffman from May 13, 2015

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• This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
  With love's true instinct, back to thee!

  Thomas Moore

  Mothers Day, Mom, Heart

  Thomas Moore (1872). “The poetical works of Thomas Moore, with notes”, p.570

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• Most mothers kiss and scold together.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

  Jenni Rivera

  Mother, Artist, Doors

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