Ayelet Waldman Quotes

Men are what their mothers made them.

I'm a bit of a mummy's boy.

I used to shake my head when I heard about mothers who were shocked - shocked! - when their kids came out. I didn't understand how they had missed seeing something so essential when looking at their children. But too many parents see only what they want to see, and that's true whether our kids are gay or straight.

I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.

I feel 95 per cent of Indian boys are mama's boys and a few of them couldn't come out of their mother's shadows. Salman Khan is one of them. I feel one of the reasons he is unable to find a soul mate is he looks for his mother in every girl.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

All my life, I have judged my worth by how much I have been loved by a man. It's so with a lot of women, that their self-esteem is measured by how much they are loved by a man, their partner, their boyfriend or maybe their husband. In my case, it may be because I grew up without my father.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

I was a mother's boy.

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

I'm a mama's boy.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

Growing up, one of my cousins was an out gay man.

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.

I am a hopeless mamma's boy.

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

It is obvious that the role of the father as the central authority in the family has been considerably challenged in Western societies. Parental responsibilities, and I knowingly use the term responsibility instead of the term authority still used in the French Civil code, are nowadays shared equally between both parents.