#mothers

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#become #children #delinquent #fatherless #fathers

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

#good #good reason #know #love #most

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

#before #blame #fathers #juliet #know

I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#created #criticizing #i #i think #internet

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#balance #being #both #confusing #difficult

No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#bad #bad people #behavior #blamed #culture

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

#employees #employers #found #issue #just

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

#good #good mother #home #like #married

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#anybody #black #cares #i #money

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it. ↗

— Sally Rand

#bet #dancing #grandmother #grandmothers #heaven