Famous quotes containing the word mothers:
“We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters lengthening flight. When they need us, we are fiercely there. But we do not need them to need usor to become us.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“Children crawl before they walk, walk before they runeach generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step awayeach a small separation, a small distancing.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)
“My generation was ... haunted by Dr. Freuds psychoanalysis, which ... had become the latest rage among the intelligentsia. I feel sorry for the modern mothers who have not one but a whole swarm of famous psychiatrists to confuse their thinking and spoil their fun by reminding them constantly that love is a dangerous business.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (18871970)