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«The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.»
Author: Albert Ellis
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness,
Life,
Problems
| Keywords:
best, blame, control, control it, decide, destiny, ecology, mother, mothering, Mother The, ones, Out of Control, President, problems, realize, The Best, the President, years
«If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.»
«For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
allows, ambitions, ambivalence, aspirations, bitterness, devotion, embodies, embody, embodying, fraught, fulfilling, games, inevitably, invest, Mother The, not allowed, project, raising, sustained, The Games
«The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.»
«A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.»
Author: Irish Proverb
| Keywords:
Good Wives, his mother, longest, loves, man and wife, mother, Mother The, sweetheart, sweethearts, wife
«From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
confronts, destroying, enterprise, mainly, Mother The, on the whole, potentialities, potentiality, subjected, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.»
Author: Tallulah Bankhead
(Actress)
| Keywords:
behave, Morning after, Mother The, The Morning After, whistler
«Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.»
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