When your mother asks,
When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway. Erma Bombeck
Young Mother
Pass by the synthetic
Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can’t they save their breath and say \”now\”?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the … Read more
No language can express
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
We should be the
We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we’re not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother. Francis Maude
The most remarkable thing
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. Calvin Trillin
Mother, I am young.
Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?” “The secret lies in … Read more
Because her instinct has
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin’s lot. Arnold Bennett
Recently a young mother
Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? “Keep her,” I replied…. The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me. Anna Quindlen
I’d like to put
I’d like to put the record straight about that. I’ve been labelled an irresponsible role model for young mothers, but none of it is true. I couldn’t even walk for two weeks after the birth, let alone exercise. I ate very healthily all the way through my pregnancy and afterwards. I didn’t do anything extreme. … Read more
Men are what their
Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson