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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations because he cannot be a mother than on a woman's because she can be.

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Every boy grows up trying to be like his father, but what if a boy grows up to be like his mother?

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.

When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype or that every mother is the same. That's complete rubbish.