Mother Jones may refer to:
- Mary Harris Jones (called "Mother Jones", 1837–1930), American labor and community organizer
- Mother Jones (magazine), liberal political magazine named after Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
- Mother Jones' Prison, formerly a National Historic Landmark in West Virginia
Famous quotes containing the words mother jones, mother and/or jones:
“I am not a suffragist, nor do I believe in careers for women, especially a career in factory and mill where most working women have their careers. A great responsibility rests upon womanthe training of children. This is her most beautiful task.”
—Mother Jones (18301930)
“I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. Id have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sisteranything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I dont realize it. You really are a part of me.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“Well, Id certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste.”
—L.Q. Jones [Justus Mcqueen] (b. 1936)