maternal behavior Quotes

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. She pushed me away from her just as she'd pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures.

I've never been particularly maternal.

I have always been a mother. When I was kid, I mothered my younger brother. I mothered my parents and even my boyfriends.

Wow my sister has changed. She used to whip her boobs out for no reason. Now she does it to feed her child.

Prenatal education can only be an unconscious result of what the parents, particularly the mother, do. If, until the child is born, the mother acts in such a way that she expresses what is morally and intellectually correct, then what she accomplishes in her own continuing education will transfer to the child.

There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac.

Mother is a verb, not a noun.