Wives And Mothers Quotes - Page 2

• Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

  R. Heber Newton

  Mother, Wife, Fundamentals

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• I've said for years to wives and mothers, you must start to see yourself as Sarah Connor. You must equip your children with the information they need to survive an ever-changing world.

  Beck

  Mother, Children, Years

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

  Chanda Kochhar

  Mother, Wife, Compromise

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• In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Daughter, Mother, Fashion

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• ... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.

  Hortense Odlum

  Mother, Careers, Wife

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• Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Mother, Children, Women

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.

  Clare Wright

  Mother, Women, Thinking

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• I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

  Shirley Temple

  Mother, Careers, Two

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• In doing the research, I found myself consumed by a single, overwhelming question, as relevant today as it was seventy years ago: When would I, as a wife and mother, risk my life - and more importantly, my child's life - to save a stranger? That question is at the very heart of The Nightingale. I hope that everyone who reads the novel will ask themselves the question.

  Megan Chance

  Mother, Children, Heart

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Men, Envy

  "Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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• From the beginning, I've stressed that home is something internal, invisible, portable, especially for those of us with roots in many physical places; we have to root ourselves in our passions, our values and our deepest friends. My home, I've always felt, lies in the songs and novels that I love, in the wife and mother that I'm never far away from, in the monastery to which I've been returning for 25 years.

  Pico Iyer

  Mother, Song, Lying

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.

  Annie Besant

  Mother, Dream, Home

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. Instead Judaism, Christianity, and Islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted.

  Michel Onfray

  Mother, Atheist, Book

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• Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mother, Brother, Growing Up

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Mother, Wife, Lovely

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• Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Mother, Wife

  Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.64, Penguin

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• Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Daughter, Mother, Atheist

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

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• The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Memories, Real

  betty friedan (1963). “the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique”

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• Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil
  Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

  Fanny Kemble

  Mother, Memorable, Wife

  "The Star of Seville: A Drama. In Five Acts".

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• I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Wife, Steps

  "Tori Amos: My family values". Interview with Jamie Tabberer, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2012.

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• I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Mother, Who I Am, Wife

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• The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

  Dorothy Fields

  Mom, Mother, Men

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• If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn't go to hell--in fact, I couldn't go to hell if I wanted to.

  Bill Foster

  Mother, Wife, Facts

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• I just look for interesting supporting-biggish supporting parts, and try to do one a year, and that's my limit. Some women can do it and that's fantastic, but I can't. You make choices as a wife and mother, don't you? You can't have it all. I don't care what it looks like.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mother, Years, Interesting

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