Mother Quotes

My mother was given to a typical question: “We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?” But my wife’s typical question was “We have always done this. Why don’t we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?”

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

My mother was my beauty icon my whole life.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know.

[On women’s role in the home:] Every wife, mother and housekeeper feels at present that there is some screw loose in the household situation.

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.

Honoring your mother is not the same as honoring her wounds.

The weather never stays too cold when the mother stays close