Mother

Mother

A mother (or mum/mom) is a woman who has raised a child, given birth to a child, and/or supplied the ovum that united with a sperm which grew into a child. Because of the complexity and differences of a mother's social, cultural, and religious definitions and roles, it is challenging to specify a universally acceptable definition for the term. The male equivalent is a father.

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Famous quotes containing the word mother:

    “I never saw a fatter man; he’d have given my mother a stone or two and not felt the loss. Round as the “o” in rotund.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak
    of our own doubts, while dubiously
    we mother man in his doubt!”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Whether your kindness, mother,
    Is mother of silences.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)