As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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Related Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others r... THIRUVALLUVAR For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can w... ANDREA DWORKIN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON A woman's body is a sacred temple. A work of art, and a life-giving vessel. And once she becomes a m... SUZY KASSEM My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son... ADRIANO GIANNINI Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soake... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Tammy ... woke up without her legs 10 days after a rocket-propelled grenade exploded in her lap as s... WESLEY CLARK She is a working mother, she works hard to provide for her son and herself, but (to provide) for som... LYDIAN STUBBS I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. And she who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her of Our inspiration and made her and her so... QURAN She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, se... SHANNON CELEBI A person is likely to be better than others if he or she seeks all qualities of his or her character... ANUJ SOMANY My colleague told a family that their mother was very sick, and the son had a heart attack in her of... DAVID MULLER A queen could leave her throne. But a mother never leaves her son. V.E. SCHWAB If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comf... C.S. LEWIS If one marries, either knowingly or unknowingly, a pregnant ,bride , the child in her womb belongs t... GURU NANAK She opened her eyes a few times today. She didn't speak, but she did seem to focus on her son, Danie... EMILY BAZELON She could spin it between her legs, skip with it, twirl it around her neck and transfer it from one ... NATHAN REESE MAHER One mother said that at 8 p.m. in her kitchen, she watched her son have a spirited exchange (online)... CALVIN BAKER My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS I really wanted her to succeed. She had such high standards for herself and (her son). DEBI BELL She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them an... STEPHEN M. IRWIN She has the most bizarre and beautiful soul I had ever seen. Her eyes shined always like a�... AKSHAY VASU It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as... GRANTLY DICK-READ She's just come undone," her mother had whispered on the phone to her aunt Bella. It was an old coll... KARIN SLAUGHTER She looked for any sign of the boy who'd taught her to whistle a hornpipe, who could palm an ace of ... TIFFANY BAKER So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception,... BIBLE That was all Celaena needed to hear before she tossed the ring to Maeve, before Rowan rushed to her,... SARAH J. MAAS And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a la... BIBLE The Trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker. FRANCIS BACON SR. A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She c... AYAAN HIRSI ALI Today's woman doesn't have emotional or financial security. She has to go out and compete within a h... BARBARA FELDON A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY [Connie Miller said she lost her husband and her son - who was raised a Christian - on June 14, 2004... CONNIE MILLER Red's had her day. It's time to give pink a go. ANTHONY T. HINCKS She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat. LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH Her history and her quest for stardom will make a compelling television series: she is a musician, a... JUDITH REGAN It’s not her shape, her face, or her hair that makes her beautiful. Neither is it t... PIERRE ALEX JEANTY She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only ... JEANE WESTIN She's Magic Johnson. She can do it all. She can get a rebound, take it the length of the floor, look... KATIE GEARLDS All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him... CHARLES YU My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mo... CAMPBELL BROWN Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smi... LYNNE RAE PERKINS There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth ... CARRIE RYAN In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocenc... HENRY MULISCH you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both. SUSAN SONTAG Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from... VICTOR HUGO And Jessamine-Jessamine was gazing at her in abject horror, like someone who has seen a vision of th... CASSANDRA CLARE He rushed beyond the barrier and called to her to follow. He was shouted at to go on but he still ca... JAMES JOYCE I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't... NAOMI BENARON My son, to find a good wife, look at the way she treats her family. Remember that you too will becom... EDMAN VAN SCHALKWYK Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who... NTOZAKE SHANGE She is a young, charming, personable soccer mom who has been carrying a secret for longer than she c... ROBERT AXELROD The intensity of intention inside a woman’s mind to reign like a queen is so pronounced that she e... ANUJ SOMANY She begged them from her jail cell to get her son out of the dope house. DONALD BROWN She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed h... ANN BRASHARES After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peacefu... LISI HARRISON Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, ... PHILIP PULLMAN She is also a young woman who falls in love, has her heart broken, worries about her looks, doesn't ... JUDITH REGAN One lady told me her son was a real computer whiz, and it took him 2½ hours to pick a plan for her ... BETTY THURMAN One lady told me her son was a real computer whiz, and it took him 2½ hours to pick a plan for her ... BETTY THURMAN My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsy... CHRISTINE EBERSOLE She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her... AYN RAND Women can fight a demon but can’t face the truth, so she hides her eternal failures behind an obsc... CHANDAN KUMAR DE Behind every witch and her potions, is a son of a bitch who toyed with her emotions. KATHERINE DIVOLIS She raised him like her own son. JUDY TESSIER Guilt is an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes that he or she has c... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of and that had come down to her had set a tra... SHERWOOD ANDERSON An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing a... MARIE RUTKOSKI She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he... BERNARDO BATIZ She bears a duke's revenues on her back,
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ADRIENNE MAYOR Autism currently affects one in 88 children in the U.S., and its prevalence continues to rise. That&... ADRIENNE BAILON I just had a hunch that there might be kernels of truth or reality - scientific or historical realit... ADRIENNE MAYOR As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his histori... ADRIENNE MAYOR Looking past the short-term price risk inherent in essentially any asset -- real or financial -- the... ADRIENNE WARREN We're keeping the record going. ADRIENNE LEPTICH We just have not seen much snow at all this year. ADRIENNE LEPTICH It means any kind of spark or people throwing cigarettes can turn into brush fires, like the ones we... ADRIENNE LEPTICH It's very complex and we have to look at it all very carefully because it is so complex. ADRIENNE LAURENT We don't want to raise expectations. The joint powers authority is one option, but it's one of the s... ADRIENNE LAURENT I also talked to Salinas police, and they have requested we do this for the investigation. ADRIENNE LAURENT I had never seen so many people at Guild Hall. We knew there was a need. ADRIENNE KITAEFF I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write. ADRIENNE KENNEDY I had always wanted to write about Ohio State. ADRIENNE KENNEDY I get excited by landscape. ADRIENNE KENNEDY I was faced with no job, my marriage had just ended, I had two children I had to take care of, my sc... ADRIENNE GONZALEZ They love the fabric and, really, that's what Bella Bags is all about -- our fabric combination. ADRIENNE GONZALEZ The bottom line is people say they hate commercials, but in reality they go to the movies they want ... ADRIENNE BECKER As an exhibitor, control what you can control. ADRIENNE BECKER One of the most amazing things (about this study) is where television and Web advertising came into ... ADRIENNE BECKER He is pushed out the door, he shoots, flees and disposes of the gun. ADRIENNE BACHMAN Ladies and gentlemen, that November 9th, Geraldine Lowe was just trying to keep her family together,... ADRIENNE BACHMAN People will still come to the theme parks, and, in Florida, we have the Keys. I get requests for the... ADRIENNE ANDERSON It's a break from regular class. I don't like Tuesdays and Thursdays because it's silent reading. ADRIENNE ANDERSON Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etching... ADRIENNE MAYOR I really wanted to do this, just as Lord Stanley did, ADRIENNE CLARKSON I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they d... ADRIENNE SHELLY In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large... ADRIENNE MAYOR Pergamon, a prosperous city in western Anatolia, was fabled to have been founded by Hercules' so... ADRIENNE MAYOR Second hand smoke is just a known health risk. ADRIENNE HERRON Secondhand smoke is the third leading cause of preventative death in the United States. For every ei... ADRIENNE HERRON The Ephesians took great pride in their temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Amazo... ADRIENNE MAYOR When you are from a well-respected family, often times you will have pressure to "live up to your fa... ADRIENNE KRESS