Quotes about moth
mother fall air
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged. Aeschylus
mother morning night
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. Aeschylus
mother father law
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness Aeschylus
mother heart son
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. Adrienne Rich
mother son men
Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him. Adrienne Rich
mother children men
But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself. Adrienne Rich
mother mind body
But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds. Adrienne Rich
mother daughter personality
Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery. Adrienne Rich
mother realization states
Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself. Adrienne Rich
motherhood assumption mesh
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power. Adrienne Rich
mothers-day children eye
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' Adrienne Rich
mother daughter son
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. Adrienne Rich
mother children war
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. Adrienne Rich
mother ice walking-away
I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back. Agatha Christie
mothers-day mom daughter
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. Agatha Christie
mother memorable thinking
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble. Agatha Christie
mother daughter one-day
If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her! Adriana Lima
mother children laughter
But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible Adriana Trigiani
mother book avid
My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes Adriana Trigiani
mother make-her-smile her-smile
I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile. Adriana Trigiani
mother hurt heart
No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her. Adriana Trigiani
mother peter talked
Peter talked to his mother and she said, Its a scam,
mother nose
One thing my mother had a nose for was inauthenticity. Michael Keaton
mothers nurse public risk time
Mothers risk prosecution every time they go out in public and nurse their children.
mother nature stuck
Mother nature really stuck with us on this, David Lucas
mother nature worse
Mother nature is not cooperating. Things will get worse as the day progresses.
mother natural nature purpose putting slate taken
Mother Nature didn't make slate for the purpose of putting it on a roof. We did. We've taken out all of the vulnerabilities and disadvantages of the natural material.
mother stop
Mother, ... if you could stop time, when would you stop it? Anna Lee
mother
McCauley called his mother and said he had killed someone.
mothers older people
Occasionally, we'll get teenagers. Most are sewers. Some have mothers who sewed. The older people quilting now are doing it because they always wanted to quilt but never had the time.
mother agriculture giving
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back. Vandana Shiva
mother differences generations
I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations. Jane Asher
mother reading underwear
My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. Jane Birkin