Pastoral Resources

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.

And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).

Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.