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  • A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

    Girl   Mother   Wife  
  • Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.

    Mother   Honesty   Wife  
  • ... a business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.

    Mother   Careers   Wife  
  • Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother.

    Mother   Mean   Men  
  • Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

  • Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

    Mother   Men   Envy  
    "Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.
  • I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.

    Mother   Dream   Home  
    Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”
  • No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

    Love   Life   Friendship  
  • I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.

    Mother   Mr Right   Wife  
  • I would like especially to mention you, the women, wives and mothers of Paraguay, who at great cost and sacrifice were able to lift up a country defeated, devastated and laid low by an abominable war. God bless your perseverance, God bless and encourage your faith, God bless the women of Paraguay, the most glorious women of America.

    "Pope laments 'gangrene' of corruption plaguing 'all peoples of the world'". www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2015.
  • Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

    Love   Family   Mom  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.
  • When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.

    Mother   Wife   Wish  
    Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown
  • My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

    "Joan Collins: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.
  • In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.

  • Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.

    Mother   Children   Home  
  • The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.

    Mother   Memories   Real  
    betty friedan (1963). “the year's most controversial bestseller the feminine mystique”
  • Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility is completely unselfish. We want to protect, to spare those of whom we are fond. We forget that, regardless of the motive, the results of such action are almost always destructive and unproductive.

  • my belonging to relief society has renewed, strengthened, and committed me to be a better wife and mother and daughter of God. my heart has been enlarged with gospel understanding and with love of the Savior and what He's done for me. so to you, dear sisters, i say: come to relief society! it will fill your homes with love and charity; it will nurture and strengthen you and your families. your home needs your righteous heart.

    Daughter   Mother   Home  
  • A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

  • Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

    Husband   Drinking   Beer  
  • a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

    Mother   Husband   Father  
    Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”
  • Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

    Mother   Crazy   Wife  
  • I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?

  • From the beginning, I've stressed that home is something internal, invisible, portable, especially for those of us with roots in many physical places; we have to root ourselves in our passions, our values and our deepest friends. My home, I've always felt, lies in the songs and novels that I love, in the wife and mother that I'm never far away from, in the monastery to which I've been returning for 25 years.

    Mother   Song   Lying  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.

    Mother   Who I Am   Wife  
  • What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

    Mother   Real   Home  
    "The Equal Rights Amendment Falters, and Phyllis Schlafly Is the Velvet Fist Behind the Slowdown". people.com. April 28, 1975.
  • Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.

    Harriet Lerner (2012). “Marriage Rules: A Manual for the Married and the Coupled Up”, p.145, Penguin
  • My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

    Mother   Wife   Joy  
  • And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.

    Mother   Class   Wife  
    Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books
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