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Quotes of the Day for 7 May 2005 - Mothers Unday

I walk a tightrope every Mother's Day. On the one hand, I dearly love my mother and can't snub her by skipping Mother's Day in the quotes selection. On the other, I married a wonderful woman who had a bad relationship with her mother, was not and never will be a mother herself, and can't stand the saccharine hallmarkian celebration every year. When a reader asked for something along the lines of an antidote, I decided to observe Mother's Unday on the day before, much like some Scandinavians celebrate St Urho's Day the day before St Patrick's. If you're completely comfortable with the traditional approach, you might want to hit Delete right now. If these resonate with you, you may not want to open tomorrow's issue.

It's clear that most children suffer too much mother and too little father.
     - Gloria Steinem

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
     - Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
     - Francis Herbert Bradley, 1846 - 1924

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
     - Gloria Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 1980

She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions, and in the end doing them irreparable harm.
     - Marcia Muller

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