#mothers

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always? ↗

— Frances Farmer

#always #began #bother #children #did

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#everything #great #happen #mothers #outlast

I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#any #born #born to be #category #children

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#born #conceit #could #filled #half

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#anything #be patient #become #even #fathers

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#am #could #i #i am #meet

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#big family #bunch #different #family #five

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. ↗

— Alice Walker

#could #creative #flower #grandmothers #handed

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#clean #full #grandmothers #hands #many

Mothers are the necessity of invention. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#invention #mothers #necessity