If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.
Let’s take care of mothers and infants first, and then let’s see what’s left over for everybody over 50. I’m over 50. If I get sick, I would rather have money spent on children before it’s spent on me.
Babies don’t need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
There’s an identity crisis – a lot of us become mothers, and all of a sudden, we’re expected to become these selfless people. That’s not a really natural process. That, for me, never felt organic.
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
So many gay men are mothers to so many young people, me included. I’ve had gay men who were more mother to me than my own mother ever was.
The Disney animators’ rules on adult females: mothers are perfect but imperiled; stepmothers are wicked and occasionally homicidal; godmothers are sweet things with magical powers.
When you’re actually talented, and you have something to offer, people start to look at you for you as opposed to who you’re the offspring of. I feel like a lot of actors, artists, or musicians who come from famous fathers or mothers all deal with the same thing.
I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.
In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
There’s a different expectation, not just on mothers but on women. We’re expected to do it all, to have it all, and look good through the process and have a smile on our face, and that’s not always the case.
