Famous quotes containing the words anonymous mother, anonymous and/or mother:
“I think that carrying a baby inside of you is like running as fast as you can. It feels like finally letting go and filling yourself up to the widest limits.”
—Anonymous Mother. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Womens Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)
“Men, my dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse- nervousness, ass-stubbornness, and camel-malicewith an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the apple in the posset, and when they can do exactly as they please, they are very hard to drive.
Oh, England. Sick in head and sick in heart,
Sick in whole and every part,
And yet sicker thou art still
For thinking that thou art not ill.”
—Thomas Henry Anonymous (182595)
“I never saw a fatter man; hed have given my mother a stone or two and not felt the loss. Round as the o in rotund.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)