Top 25 Quotes About Mothers Bodies
#1. Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.
Coco Rocha
#2. Travis walked me to class, his grip tensing a few times when my feet slipped on the ice. "You should be more careful," he teased.
"I'm doing it on purpose. You're such a sucker."
"If you want my arms around you, all you have to do is ask," he said, pulling me into his chest.
Jamie McGuire
#3. But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
Adrienne Rich
#5. If more women were in power, they wouldn't let wars break out," she said. "Women can't be bothered with all this fighting. We see war for what it is- a matter of broken bodies and crying mothers.
Alexander McCall Smith
#6. Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.
George Ellery Hale
#7. To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.
Stanley Hauerwas
#8. It's harder to get outside your own head than you think.
Tyler Cowen
#9. Mothers weep and Sons be dumb
your brothers and children murder the beautiful yellow bodies of Indochina in dreams invented for your eyes by TV
Allen Ginsberg
#10. My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes.
Jennifer Echols
#11. My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#12. Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
Adam Gopnik
#13. I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
Graydon Carter
#14. I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
Dani Shapiro
#15. Of course there are mothers,
squeezing their breasts
dry, pawning their bodies,
shedding teeth for their children,
or that's our fond belief.
But remember - Hansel
and Gretel were dumped in the forest
because their parents were starving.
Margaret Atwood
#16. Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
Walter Darby Bannard
#17. The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.
Ron Fournier
#18. Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.
Lisa Carey
#19. A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order.
Conway Zirkle
#20. I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.
Judy Blundell
#21. Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.
Kim Hyesoon
#22. Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
Adrienne Rich
#23. But in the midst of our greatest pains we can find comfort and encouragement in the fact that others with similar struggles have successfully gone before us.
Seth Adam Smith
#24. In fact, to be successful at organic beekeeping, it is even more important to learn to work with the natural biological processes and instinctive behaviors of the bees.
Ross Conrad
