But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It is the only love that nothing - not even misconduct on our part - can take away from us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
Love and honesty are the things that make a good wife and mother.
Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.
Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
I think being raised by a single mother put me on the outside, and I would watch my mother's married friends and think, 'Why does she put him down in public?' or, 'Why is he so rude to her?' It seemed to me that there were very few marriages where the couple were genuinely in a supportive, loving partnership.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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.
It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.
To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
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