Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

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You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, not about her children or the world, who was always suspicious, always tearing you down and splitting your dreams straight down the seams. When my first pen pal, Tomoko, stopped writing me after three letters she was the one who laughed: You think someone's going to lose life writing to you? Of course I cried; I was eight and I had already planned that Tomoko and her family would adopt me. My mother of course saw clean into the marrow of those dreams, and laughed. I wouldn't write to you either, she said. She was that kind of mother: who makes you doubt yourself, who would wipe you out if you let her. But I'm not going to pretend either. For a long time I let her say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her.

~ Junot Díaz

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my motheris pure radiance. she is the suni can touchand kissand holdwithout getting burnt.

~ Sanober Khan

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How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?

~ Jandy Nelson

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Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. (The Higgler)

~ A.e. Coppard

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Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? Pointing to his disciples, he said, Here are my mother and my brothers... (Matthew 12:48)

~ Anonymous

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In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only a day to go, even by my standards. I spooned the apples into tiny bowls, tossed in some dried fruit and sprinkled them with crumble topping. Delicious, they said that night, scraping the bowls so clean they hardly needed to go in the dishwasher. The fools.

~ Helen Brown

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She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

~ Danielle Steel

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I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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Healthy boys grow into healthy men.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

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According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

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Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

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There’s a wound most troubled boys share, which, at its core, comes from the feeling that they don’t have their father’s unconditional love.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

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When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

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Despite what you might believe right now, your son’s future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

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It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

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Healing, it turns out, is a journey. It doesn’t happen all at once.

~ Clayton Lessor Ma

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Your mother wasn’t upset. “Scars stay with you so you don’t forget,” she said. She seemed almost satisfied.

~ Jinat Rehana Begum

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My mother had been in the Soviet whirlpool for eleven years by this point. Enough time, I imagine, to unlearn the bourgeois habits of her native Brooklyn, to accustom herself to the farting and shouting of her neighbours, to doing her washing by hand in the collective tub, to keeping her dry food locked up in her wardrobe

~ Sana Krasikov

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Sometimes you just need the comforts of home, the familiarity of your own family bed and only the pampering a mother can do.

~ Emily Williams

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The woman who is my best friend, my teacher, my everything: Mom.

~ Sandra Vischer

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As it was, she gave him the single most important gift a parent can give—“a sense of unconditional love that was big enough that, with all the surface disturbances of our lives, it sustained me, entirely.” People wonder about his calm and even-keeled manner, the [P]resident observed. He credited the temperament he was born with and the fact that “from a very early age, I always felt I was loved and that my mother thought I was special.

~ Janny Scott

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The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The open forgiveness in her eyes, the uncensored love, terrified me.

~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

~ Mitch Albom

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Nothing you could do would make me send you away. Nothing.

~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

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Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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All too soon the garden of childhood is paved cold with the asphalt roads of adulthood. And while it is not within her power to halt this unrelenting progression, a mother can diligently guard this most precious garden and insure that the roads become gentle paths that wind through it instead of byways that kill it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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One of a mother’s greatest gifts is to teach her child that to grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water’s edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore. And that lesson can be best taught by a mother who stands before her child dripping wet.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Chilled ice tea that tempered tepid summer days lathered thick with humidity. Frothy hot chocolate that cut winter’s chill. Bedtime prayers that sent our fears scrambling in panicked flight. Golden bouquets of dandelions aromatically rich with the gift of summers scent. Family meals that wove yet another binding thread in and through the tapestry of those seated around the table. These are but the slightest sampling of the innumerable gifts my mother handed to this child of hers. And without them, my life would be impoverished beyond words to describe.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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With the gentle force of their words, the dogged warmth of their embrace, and the assuring touch of souls softly bared, mothers are silently shaping whole societies and authoring entire cultures that sit poised on the horizon of the future. And although we ignorantly relegate such roles to some lower caste status, we would be wise to understand that the role of a mother sets the cadence of the future.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone,” her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ring. “Where’ve you been, what’ve you been up to?”“Mom, do you remember when I was a kid, I had a friend, he was a Personification of the Sydney Tar Ponds, sort of my imaginary friend?” Mandy asked.“No, what in the name of god are you on about?” her mom sighed in exasperation.“Remember? Only I could see him, but he was real and he was my best friend when I was eighteen?” Mandy insisted.“No, I don't remember Alecto Sydney Steele at all,” said her mom all too quickly.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

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A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Every parent is an artist, for the bared canvas of a newborn’s soul begs for the artist’s touch. And because this is so, a parent must prepare the palette with the utmost care, choose the brushes with poised caution, and mindfully attend to every brushstroke regardless of how slight. And such caution is utterly imperative for the emerging rendering will be both a legacy borne of the parent, and a life lived by the child.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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The child you hold in your arms is your gift to a future that you will not see. Therefore, we must turn a blind eye to ourselves and selflessly pour the best of ourselves into our children while rigorously sifting out the worst of ourselves. And once we are utterly spent by such daring gestures, we will shockingly discover the resulting emptiness as astonishingly filled.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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A Mother & Daughter's Love Is Never Separated

~ Viola Shipman

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You feel well, Ali? You have a very faraway look on your face, beta,' my dad said. 'Like you have left your heart behind.'He fixed me with eyes as liquid black as mine and for a moment I felt exposed, like he could see right through me. That irrational childhood thought that he could read my mind maybe.'What nonsense, his heart is here with his mother and his family. Tell him, Ali,' my mother said.'Begum, this generation of boys and girls, you know how they are.' My dad never said my mother's name; she was always Begum, the generic term for 'wife'.

~ Ruth Ahmed

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There was something about him that had always rubbed her the wrong way. Before her mother’s death, she [Shiara] could remember her saying that he was a nice enough young man, but not the one for her daughter.

~ J.c. Morrows

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Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

~ Susumu Katsumata

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For my mother’s entire life, her mother was less a mother than splintered bits of shrapnel she carried around in her body, sharp, rusty debris that threatened to puncture an organ if she turned a certain way.

~ Meghan Daum

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