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She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear. ~ Stephen King
Mother Abagail quotes by Stephen King
My mother and father took me in and provided everything for me - the love, nurturing, basic necessities - to give me the space to grow wings, so that when I went out into the world, I could fly. ~ Michael Franti
Mother Abagail quotes by Michael Franti
Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old. ~ Jane Leavy
Mother Abagail quotes by Jane Leavy
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. ~ Boris Pasternak
Mother Abagail quotes by Boris Pasternak
One great distinction, I appeared to myself to see plainly between even the characteristic faults of our elder poets, and the false beauty of the moderns. In the former, from Donne to Cowley, we find the most fantastic out-of-the-way thoughts, but in the most pure and genuine mother English, in the latter the most obvious thoughts, in language the most fantastic and arbitrary. Our faulty elder poets sacrificed the passion and passionate flow of poetry to the subtleties of intellect and to the stars of wit; the moderns to the glare and glitter of a perpetual, yet broken and heterogeneous imagery, or rather to an amphibious something, made up, half of image, and half of abstract meaning. The one sacrificed the heart to the head; the other both heart and head to point and drapery. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mother Abagail quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Most men get their deepest conviction of self-worth from a woman, wife, mother, or if they are highly conscious, from their own anima. The woman sees and shows the man his value by lighting the lamp. ~ Robert A. Johnson
Mother Abagail quotes by Robert A. Johnson
I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister. ~ Eric Dickerson
Mother Abagail quotes by Eric Dickerson
Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to. ~ Mike Krzyzewski
Mother Abagail quotes by Mike Krzyzewski
When our mother is seen only as the one-dimensional Mary of modern times, instead of the great dual force of life and death, She is relegated to the same second-class status of most women in the world. She is without desires of Her own, selfless and sexless except for Her womb. She is the cook, the mistress, bearer and caretaker of children and men. Men call upon Her and carry Her love and magic to form a formidable fortress, a team of cannons to protect them against their enemies. But for a long, long time the wars that women have been left to wage on behalf of men, on behalf of the human race, have started much sooner, in the home, in front of the hearth, in the womb. We do what we must to protect and provide for our young our families, our tribes ~ Ana Castillo
Mother Abagail quotes by Ana Castillo
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd read, I started relying on the expert advice of other mothers
especially those with sons a few years older than mine. This great body of knowledge is essentially an oral history, because anyone engaged in motherhood on a daily basis has no time to write an advice book about it. ~ Mary Blakely
Mother Abagail quotes by Mary Blakely
If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference. ~ Susan Sarandon
Mother Abagail quotes by Susan Sarandon
That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times. ~ Thomas Hardy
Mother Abagail quotes by Thomas Hardy
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. ~ Barbara Delinsky
Mother Abagail quotes by Barbara Delinsky
It seemed to me like all my worrying about not being a mother came down to this history - this implication that a woman is not an end in herself. She is a means to a man, who will grow up to be an end in himself, and do something in the world. While a woman is a passageway through which a man might come. I have always felt like an end in myself - doesn't everyone? - but perhaps my doubt that being an end-in-myself is enough comes from this deep lineage of women not being seen as ends, but as passageways through which a man might come. If you refuse to be a passageway, there is something wrong. You must at least try. But I don't want to be a passageway through which a man might come, then manifest himself in the world however he likes, without anyone doubting his right. ~ Sheila Heti
Mother Abagail quotes by Sheila Heti
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. ~ Gloria Steinem
Mother Abagail quotes by Gloria Steinem
Arin remmembered seeing her hand in Javelin's mane, curling into the coarse strands. This made him remember the almost freakish lenghth between her littlest finger and thumb as her hand spanned piano keys. The black star of the birth-mark. He saw her again in the imperial palace. Her music room. He'd seen that room only once. About a month ago, right before Firstsummer. Her blue sleeves were fastened at the wrist.
Something tugged inside him. A flutter of unease.
Do you sing? Those had been her first words to him, the day she had bought him. A band of nausea circled Arin's throat, just as it had when she had asked him that question, in part for the same reason. She'd had no trace of an accent. She had spoken in perfect, natural, mother-taught Herrani. ~ Marie Rutkoski
Mother Abagail quotes by Marie Rutkoski
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. ~ James Russell Lowell
Mother Abagail quotes by James Russell Lowell
Ramakrishna didn't suddenly become enlightened. We had years of him meditating, seeking, crying to Mother Kali, going in and out of samadhi; but after many years of this process, he was enlightened. He was no longer a finite individual. ~ Frederick Lenz
Mother Abagail quotes by Frederick Lenz
Didn't you know? Hasn't Atticus gotten around to telling you that? Why, I'm amazed at Zandra not . . . good heavens, I thought all of Maycomb knew that." "Knew what?" "I was in love with your mother." "My mother? ~ Harper Lee
Mother Abagail quotes by Harper Lee
A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone. ~ Frank McCourt
Mother Abagail quotes by Frank McCourt
We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here's my mother, figuring "alert" ought to suffice as a compliment. ~ Randy Pausch
Mother Abagail quotes by Randy Pausch
In college, educated women (I found out) were frigid; active women (I knew) were neurotic; women (we all knew) were timid, incapable, dependent, nurturing, passive, intuitive, emotional, unintelligent, obedient, and beautiful. You can always get dressed up and go to a party. Woman is the gateway to another world; Woman is the earth-mother; Woman is the eternal siren; Woman is purity; Woman is carnality; Woman has intuition; Woman is the life-force; Woman is selfless love.

"I am the gateway to another world," (said I, looking in the mirror) "I am the earth-mother; I am the eternal siren; I am purity," (Jeez, new pimples) "I am carnality; I have intuition; I am the life-force; I am selfless love." (Somehow it sounds different in the first person, doesn't it?)

Honey (said the mirror, scandalised) Are you out of your fucking mind?
I AM HONEY
I AM RASPBERRY JAM
I AM A VERY GOOD LAY
I AM A GOOD DATE
I AM A GOOD WIFE
I AM GOING CRAZY
Everything was peaches and cream. ~ Joanna Russ
Mother Abagail quotes by Joanna Russ
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest. ~ Victor Hugo
Mother Abagail quotes by Victor Hugo
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. ~ Edna O'Brien
Mother Abagail quotes by Edna O'Brien
As Napoleon Hill said, necessity may be the mother of invention but it is also the father of crime. ~ S. Hussain Zaidi
Mother Abagail quotes by S. Hussain Zaidi
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus ... I rhyme. ~ Saul Williams
Mother Abagail quotes by Saul Williams
So the fox killed his brother, the wolf. (Mother Scaer) ~ Joe Abercrombie
Mother Abagail quotes by Joe Abercrombie
Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide. ~ E.F. Benson
Mother Abagail quotes by E.F. Benson
But I think her feelings about our mother were a heavy burden in her life, at least when they were together. When our mother was far away, maybe she could forget her. Our mother was always stepping on her to get up higher, always needing to be right, always needing to be better than her, and than all of us, most of the time. The terrible innocence of our mother, too, as she did that. She had no idea, most of the time. ~ Lydia Davis
Mother Abagail quotes by Lydia Davis
My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind. ~ Les Dawson
Mother Abagail quotes by Les Dawson
I prayed. I flattened myself under her bed and prayed. My mother sat up, rigid, trembling. The machines flew overhead then away and back again, the sound retreating and filling my head once more.
I lay next to my mother, wondering about the fate of my brothers, my sisters ans stepsisters, my father and friends. I knew that when the helicopters were gone, life would have changed irreversibly in our village. But would it be over? Would the crickets leave? I did not know. My mother did not know. It was the beginning of the end if knowing that life would continue. Do you have a feeling, Michael, that you will wake up tomorrow? That you will eat tomorrow? That the world will not end tomorrow? ~ Dave Eggers
Mother Abagail quotes by Dave Eggers
On my family: My mother buries her grief in her work. Having no work, grief buries me. ~ Suzanne Collins
Mother Abagail quotes by Suzanne Collins
So what if it's Achilles' mother who can have a son that's greater than its father? What if it's Io, too? What if it's any girl, every girl? Any woman? Every woman, Anna. Sure and can't any son be greater than his father? Isn't that what it's all about, what makes us all go on? Ye can't look at the sheer bloody-minded defiance of a wee babe screaming its lungs out at the terrible injustice of the world and not have hope. Every generation of us, all born kicking up a racket, revels every one of us. So who's the son - the child - that's greater than its father? I'll tell ye who it is, Anna.

Humanity. ~ Hal Duncan
Mother Abagail quotes by Hal Duncan
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