Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.
A. E. Coppard
Mother’s love is peace.
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. Erich Fromm
Mother Son Relationship
The mother-child relationship is
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent. Erich Fromm
Be careful to leave
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. Epictetus
… there had been
… there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her e-mails and would still snuggle up to her to be petted when they were in the mood, but they were men, and though they would always be at the center of her life, … Read more
Mothers see the angel
Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it’s shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn’t he? When a son cuts somebody’s throat the mother only sees it’s possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil – and she’s entirely right about that! … Read more
It is one of
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust’s mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust’s heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the … Read more
Men are what their
Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remember my mother’s
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. Abraham Lincoln