Famous quotes containing the words anonymous mother and/or mother:
“Lonesome? God, no! From the day the kids are born, if it’s not one thing, it’s another. After all those years of being responsible for them, you finally get to the point where you want to scream: “Fall out of the nest already, you guys, will you? It’s time.””
—Anonymous Mother of Four. As quoted in Women of a Certain Age, by Lillian B. Rubin, ch. 2 (1979)
“Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak
of our own doubts, while dubiously
we mother man in his doubt!”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)