Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.
Kate Winslet
Related Remember, in every woman is a mother SOTONYE ANGA Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the... EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, bu... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mo... LISA EDELSTEIN And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wond... CHELSEA CLINTON With pain I learned about the tragedy that has struck your family, ... You have lost the most loyal ... BORIS YELTSIN I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is y... MAYA ANGELOU The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, bu... OSHO Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father o... GEORGE ELIOT I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana R... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about mak... PRINCE WILLIAM When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particul... CATE BLANCHETT I really believe in the Freudian idea that every man wants a woman who's like his mother ASHTON KUTCHER Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend,... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became... JAMAICA KINCAID My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed... JADE JAGGER I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the co... ALAN DERSHOWITZ We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered fro... INGMAR BERGMAN The intensity of intention inside a woman’s mind to reign like a queen is so pronounced that she e... ANUJ SOMANY If you cannot rape your mother, how dare you wake up and rape someone else's mother? Or daughter? Af... NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother'... JAMES ELLROY Just because you become a mother, doesn't mean you stop being a woman. NICOLE A. WALKER Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends... C.G. JUNG No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mo... MARGARET SANGER No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free... MARGARET SANGER No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself fr... MARGARET SANGER Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? J.K. ROWLING What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her l... AL LEWIS My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's eve... SETH MEYERS I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million q... VANESSA MINNILLO I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million q... VANESSA LACHEY I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman. VANESSA FERLITO My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought... ILYASAH SHABAZZ I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until y... NATASHA LEGGERO I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work. SONIA RYKIEL She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed h... ANN BRASHARES There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movie... ALBERT BROOKS My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;... QUENTIN BRYCE Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my l... BRISTOL PALIN My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you l... JAN BREWER My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave hi... ELLEN ULLMAN I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ... NAOMI CAMPBELL Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just t... DAN CASTELLANETA In transition? What kind of a Mexican mother are you?” “I’m an educated woman. That doesn’t ... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... ANGELINA JOLIE Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother. ROBERT FROST Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, ... KATHARINE HEPBURN Your mother is a woman of many sayings, is she? BOBBY DARIN Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother ... SHERYL LEE RALPH I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go ... TAB HUNTER My mother is a walking contradiction and so is every woman in the universe. I am passionately inspir... RICKY PEREZ Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head? BILLY CONNOLLY My brother doesn't know how to think of anything other than his own responsibilities." "Perhaps... CATHY MAXWELL The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother ELIZABETH CADY STANTON I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white [her father Jerome is... HALLE BERRY The woman now, she has to be the mother, the lover, the worker, do everything. The material we have ... FRANCOIS GIRBAUD This is a woman who lived, breathed and died the state of Connecticut. She took things personally, a... JAMES GRASSO The only prescription for morality is this: Remember that every woman could have been your mother, e... C. JOYBELL C. Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don... YOKO ONO One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when ... ELEANOR PORTER A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend." His Mother says: "Why did yo... VERONICA ROTH My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that ma... SANFORD I. WEILL My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would... ISIDOR ISAAC RABI Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child. AMIT KALANTRI You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it h... CHARLIZE THERON The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like somet... MARLO THOMAS For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer. JOE MANTEGNA As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the momen... ANDIE MACDOWELL My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in... HOPE JAHREN We go to Italy every winter, and my husband's mother has a bingo party on Christmas. Every woman... DEBI MAZAR Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else impo... THANDIE NEWTON In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like t... JULIA CHILD I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother. W. C. FIELDS A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are utt... THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire mon... ANNE LAMOTT It's changing Mother Nature a bit. It depends on how you handle the issues. If you have the right st... KLAUS BIRKEL My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't... SHIA LABEOUF Everything else is expendable, but not humanhood. Every scripture, every god, every angel, every mes... ABHIJIT NASKAR Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Thr... ELLEN KEY The Mole and His Mother
A mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure tha... AESOP My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes... ZOE KRAVITZ The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet. 'Not always,' I countered. 'Yes, alw... RUTA SEPETYS There is no mother like your own mother. VIKRANT PARSAI My mother used to fight with me. She said, 'If you don't work, how will you eat?' I never refused my... LALITA DABERIA Even God would say"Finish the task you have undertaken". He would never recommend breaking her mothe... AHDAF SOUEIF Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. ... DAVID CHASE You have lost the truest and most devoted friend. The most outstanding person, the most wonderful wo... BORIS YELTSIN The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and... HOMER SIMPSON A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician. EMMA BONINO There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother... JOAN CHEN Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her wo... MILAN KUNDERA My mother did not have a toaster oven and would toast bread in the oven, which I thought was stupid.... JAMES TURRELL I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell... MAYA ANGELOU I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It's ... MONICA BELLUCCI We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. Wha... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mot... DOROTHY FIELDS And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsom... CATHERINE GILBERT MURDOCK When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ... AMY POEHLER The old man spoke of nothing but shoes. He spoke of them with such love and emotion that a woman in ... RUTA SEPETYS
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But the thou... KATE Why do people get back in the box ?,
when deep down inside there isn't room enough.
And even though ... KATE Reading between the lines is supposed to lift you up, except when the message reminds you of the mis... KATE Tic tac, tic tac.
Three o clock, it's time to stop,
Thinking about what is not.
Tic tac, tic tac
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But whe... KATE Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm
being sleepless in the desert has it's charm.
A billion ... KATE Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while.....
Maybe I am lost longer then I think.... KATE They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone... KATE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.......
Now I know what I did wrong all the ti... KATE Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther... KATE My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep. KATE Time is precious....I would love to spend a day how I really want to spend it...or maybe a few.. KATE Back to the corner where you came from, and dim that little light, before it finally discover's how ... KATE I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast
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would it wash away the spots,
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