Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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About William Makepeace Thackeray

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William Makepeace Thackeray ( THAK-ər-ee; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which was adapted for...

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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

Tis not the dying for a faith that is so hard . . . 'tis the living up to it that is difficult.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

—Paula Poundstone

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We are impressed with nature's power, but by projecting upon this power an image of the feminine, the mother, we reassure ourselves — for surely a mother will always be loving toward us, continue to feed us, clothe us, and carry away our wastes, and never kill us, no matter how much toxic waste we put in the soil or how many CFCs in the ozone. The sense of nature as inexhaustible mother encourages us to feel there are no limits to a finite planet, while the sense of nature as benign and ever-loving mother permits us to continue disregarding a crescendo of warnings.

—Elizabeth Dodson Gray

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What mother and daughter understand each other, or even have sympathy for each other's lack of understanding?

—Maya Angelou

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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems onto the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

—Germaine Greer

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At that moment, I missed my mother more than I had ever imagined possible and wanted only to live somewhere quiet and beautiful with her alone, but also at that moment I wanted only to see her lying dead, all withered and in a coffin at my feet.

—Jamaica Kincaid

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