Birth Mother

Famous quotes containing the words birth and/or mother:

“To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“Mole dog,
I wish your mother would wake you up
and you wouldn’t lie there like the Pietà
wearing your cross on your nose.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)