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I think I'm an extremely good mother. I know I'm an extremely good mother. But I didn't realise how much it sucks out of you.

~Alex Kingston

Topics: Extremely Good Good Mother How How Much Know Mother Much Out Realise Sucks Think You I Think

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

~Alexa Vega

Topics: Anytime Getting Good Good Mother Line Mother Out Raised Soon Strict Very I Was Raised

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Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

~Ann Oakley

Topics: Being Call Children Clean Dedication Development Does Good Good Mother Housewife Individuals Interest Keeping May Mother Qualities Same Separate Tidy

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It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.

~Annette Bening

Topics: Bad Bad Girl Baking Businesswoman Children Earth Girl Good Good Girl Good Mother Happy Her Home Horrible Knew Lie Mother Other Right Sort Stuff Used Were Who You

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If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Am Anyone Anyone Else Bad Child Children Else Fact Good Good Mother Her Husband In Fact Love Loves More Mother Than Who World I Am I Love

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A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Active Always Art Beloved Breakfast Cheerful Children Clothes Community Dates Does Fit Fruit Games Good Good Mother Her Make Mother Neuroses Never Onto Own Play Project Projects Remembers Serve She Them Volunteer

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I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

~Caleb Carr

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

~Christian Morgenstern

Topics: Child-Rearing Choose First Good Good Mother Mother Principle

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I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.

~Dawn Steel

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I think I was raised by a really good mother.

~Dean Winters

Topics: Good Good Mother Mother Raised Really Think I Think I Was Raised

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