Quotes About Mean Mothers

#1. But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

J.D. Salinger

#2. The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

Andrea Dworkin

#3. Good food is a good trend.

Thomas Keller

#4. 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

#5. I don't mean that my mother didn't love me but she was not a domestic person: her life was in her mind. The fundamental skill of all mothers - the management

Zadie Smith

#6. Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#7. Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

William Ernest Henley

#8. We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.

Betty Friedan

#9. People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.

Wilhelm Reich

#10. We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.

Julius Caesar

#11. When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Mignon McLaughlin

#12. I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.

Albert Wynn

#13. To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.

Evgeny Morozov

#14. Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.

Toni Morrison

#15. You both make each other want to be better people, and that's a feckin' rare thing. Far too many couples drown each other in their own selfishness these days.

R.J. Prescott

#16. Welcome to the world of Cahills. If it isn't impossible, it isn't worth doing.

Gordon Korman

#17. I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.

Adele

#18. It was never really part of my plan to be in films; it was really sort of a dream.

Luke Evans

#19. I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.

Shane Claiborne

#20. If I could get bands to come and play in my house, I'd like that.

Martin Freeman

#21. You don't belong here if you are unhappy," she continued. "Your mother makes you hateful, and you make her hateful. It doesn't matter if she's your mother. It's an accident of birth. It doesn't have to mean so much." ... "You belong where you have the best chance of being happy ...

Laura Moriarty

#22. It's as if the sea sucked away her past and left her empty.

Lois Lowry

#23. I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari - I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.

Ilona Andrews

#24. Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

Donald Rumsfeld

#25. I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.

Wallace Shawn

#26. I can do everything I want to do.

Carrie Underwood

#27. When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.

Billy Bob Thornton

#28. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Bob Hope

#29. A diet counselor once told me that all overweight people are angry with their mothers and channel their frustrations into overeating. So I guess that means all thin people are happy, calm, and have resolved their Oedipal entanglements.

Wendy Wasserstein

#30. Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.

Grace Jones

#31. The Internet is not a place. It's a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.

Eleanor Antin

#32. Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.

Robin Morgan