Mothering Sunday is a Christian festival celebrated throughout Europe that falls on the 4th Sunday in Lent. Secularly it became an occasion for reuniting with your family and giving flowers, cakes and gifts to your mother. It is increasingly being called Mother's Day, although that holiday has other origins. In the UK it is considered synonymous with Mother's Day as celebrated in other countries.
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Famous quotes containing the words mothering and/or sunday:
“Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.”
—Nancy Chodorow, U.S. professor, and sociologist. The Reproduction of Mothering Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, ch. 2 (1978)
“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”
—Joseph Roux (1834–1886)