Learn Through Quotations

“The phrase 'working mother' is redundant.”

“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

“Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.”

“Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.”

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

“Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.”

“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.”

“One boy is worth half a man. Two boys are worth half a boy. Three boys are no help at all.”

“Girls are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.”

“Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.”

“It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.”

“Men are no more immune from emotions than women, we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, 'feminine' ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.”

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.”

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

“Girls you never know what they're going to think.”

“If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything.”

“When a girl goes bad -- men go right after her.”

“To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.”

“It's the good girls who keep diaries, the bad girls never have the time.”

“When a girl ceases to blush,she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.”

“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”