My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate... →
Antonia Fraser
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'
Donald Freed
I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was... →
Cathy Freeman
Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.
Dawn French
It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children... →
Anna Freud
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom... →
When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Nancy Friday