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Every Mother is a working mother.
(Slogan, U.S.)
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Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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Seeking in one place always another,
And travelling further from mother, from mother....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The house on the edge of the serious wood.")
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Whether your kindness, mother,
Is mother of silences.
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Seasons of the Soul.")
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Remember that every son had a mother
whose beloved son he was,
and every woman had a mother
whose beloved son she wasn't.
(Marge Piercy (20th century), U.S. writer. "Doing It Differently," Circles on the Water (1892).)
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This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sδmtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 267, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, "Woman and Child," aphorism 387, "Maternal Kindness," (1878).)
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I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.
(Cher (20th century), U.S. entertainer and actoress. As quoted in The Mother Book, by Liz Smith (1978).)
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"O I have killed my hawk so good,
Mother, mother;
(Unknown. Edward (l. 5-6).
OxBB. Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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