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Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child. — Jodi Picoult

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea. — Paul Watzlawick

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. — Dorothy Parker

My mother used to say that a good meal could ease a troubled heart. — Amy Ewing

I've been lucky: my Japanese genes - from my mother's side - and a lifelong moisturising routine have helped keep me looking good. — Marie Helvin

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War. — Joe Abercrombie

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. — George Herbert Palmer

Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person. — Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

I'm probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. — Anne Lamott

The Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish. — Mother Teresa

I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law. — Stephane Hessel

Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone. — Mother Teresa

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole. — Kristi Yamaguchi

She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend. — Ida Hattemer-Higgins

I'm a good mother. I'm a good person. — Heather Mills

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own. — Rick Riordan

A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living. — Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain
of love Mother Theresa — Mother Teresa

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. — Mother Teresa

I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother. — Rosie O'Donnell

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true. — Lenny Kravitz

I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend. — Suzy Favor Hamilton

For now, for this year, I need to be a good mother. — Elizabeth Vargas

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person. — Meredith Vieira

There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form of selfishness. — Anna Quindlen

There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral. — Rachel Vincent

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother. — Jada Pinkett Smith

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth. — Robyn Davidson

Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler. — Charlotte M. Mason

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero — Gelett Burgess

But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time. — Angelina Jolie

If your mother likes your drawing of a duck and hangs it on the refrigerator, that doesn't mean it's good."
"Snob," Sam said. — Michael Thomas Ford

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters. — George Herbert

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money. — Anne Robinson

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work. — Stephen Pagliuca

A good mother is irreplaceable. — Adriana Trigiani

Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence. — Claire Denis

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother. — Jay E. Adams

Good girl, Rachel. Now, let's get the hell out of here. Your mother has a headache that won't quit until you're twenty-one — David Sedaris

I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person. — Peaches Geldof

I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy. — Kate Bush

I think of Oprah as a Mother Joseph wannabe, a daytime oracle rewarding the good and punishing the bad. — Margaret Carlson

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there? — Spencer W. Kimball

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos — Alice Randall

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter. — Anchee Min

So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well. — George W. Bush

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. — Vivienne Westwood

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner. — Halle Berry

A boy who could make his mother feel special inspite of his own ordeals is the boon from God in lieu of some good deed. — Adhish Mazumder

The great challenge for me is to be all things to all people; I want to be a great mother, and I want to feel good when I'm at work. — Sarah Jessica Parker

It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that. — Judith Viorst

The best sentence a man can say to a woman is "I want to meet your parents" or "You will be a good mother one day". — Yuli Pritania

My mother was a good Catholic
she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic. — Sue Monk Kidd

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. — Christian Morgenstern

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. — James E. Faust

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends. — Betty White

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features. — Audrey Hepburn

Never chase a man, her mother had told her. No good will come of it. — Maggie O'Farrell

Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me! — Ellen Sussman

When a man marries, he should take a good look at his mother-in-law first, to understand where life will take him. — Ashok Ferrey

Cybill Shepherd's mother - her name is Patty - is a good friend of mine. — Georgia Holt

The father's role, he says, is to provide the mother with the peace and security she needs to be a good enough mother. — Massimilla Harris

So far so good. I had a recently widowed mother and her orphaned son crying hysterically. Maybe for an encore I could shoot the family dog. — Robert B. Parker

With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing. — Sarah Polley

Trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one. — Lionel Shriver

My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident. — Salman Rushdie

My mother raised three kids on her own, so I was taught that to be a working mom was a good thing. — Sarah Shahi

Rest easy, real mothers. The fact that you worry about being a good mother means you already are one. — Jodi Picoult

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god. — Chazz Palminteri

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. — Dick Gregory

Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller. — Meghan O'Rourke

I loved my mother, she's a good girl. — Charles Manson

On a good day, my style is librarian chic. On a bad day, it's frumpy mother. — Cassandra Page

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same. — George Bernard Shaw

If steak is the tuxedo of meat, and bacon is the candy of meat, then a good cheeseburger is the mother's hug of meat. — Jim Gaffigan

She decided it was perhaps a little like marriage itself: a good idea that, like all ideas, lived awkwardly on earth. -Terrific Mother — Lorrie Moore

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes ... And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her. — Jodi Picoult

The desires for both a good experience and a healthy baby are very much connected, and there is nothing wrong with wanting both! — Jennetta Billhimer

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. — Barbara Kingsolver

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won't be getting out of line anytime soon. — Alexa Vega

Pete's a good guy."
"He just slept with my mother!"
"I didn't say he was perfect. — Debbie Macomber

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

Good mother knows her children, knows everything about them, the good and the bad. A great mother loves them regardless. — Melody Anne

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death. — Larry Watson

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother. — James Cook

Ah, now my pet, you'll be callin' me, Ma. Me gynecologist calls me Mrs. McClung," Charlie's mother instructed a blushing Marian. From "A Good Girl — Mary Anne Edwards

The heart of a good mother is as big as the ocean; accommodating all kind of things and sweeping all unwanted things to its shores! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother. — Charles M. Schulz

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!! — Eoin Colfer

Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother. — Jada Pinkett Smith

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously. — Roz Chast

He liked the phrase "mother's tit." It said so much, so simply. Momma's tit had a good deal more power to move these men than her apple pie. — Clive Barker

I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father — Robert Rankin

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice. — Joanne Harris

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do. — J. Ogden Armour

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love. — William Watson Purkey

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me. — Sheena Easton

You could say that I am the Estee Lauder woman. I'm a working mother; time is valuable to me. I want a good product; I want quality. — Aerin Lauder