"My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

James Dobson, American Psychologist

Family, Children, Giving, Growingup, Neglect

"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all."

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"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Family, Happiness, Unhappiness, Life

"Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Family, Instinct, Happiness, Emotion, Life

"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Family, Emotion, Reflection, Motherhood, Self-Worth

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Carol Shields, Canadian Author

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Man

"What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it."

Future

"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power."

Power

"The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young."

History

"This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment."

Nation

"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."

Woman

"This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."

"So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball."

"I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier."

"I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all."

"One of the strongest loves I've ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child."

"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy."

"Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was."

"I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations."

Explore more quotes by Kate Millett

"Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard."

"What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it."

"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power."

"The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young."

"This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment."

"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."

"Psychiatry causes so much death."

"Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?"

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"This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you."