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- God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. —Rudyard Kipling.
- Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face. —George Eliot.
- A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go. —Unknown.
- Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you’re the only person who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside. —Rachel Wolchin.
- Marie Curie
- Sojourner Truth
- Abigail Adams
- Irena Sendler
- Kathy Headlee
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Hoelun
- Candy Lightner
- Waris Dirie
- Indira Gandhi
Although scientist Marie Curie (1867–1934) is best known for being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, she also raised her two young daughters alone after her husband died in an accident in 1906. One of their daughters, Irène Joliot-Curie, went on to co-win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband for their own work with radioactivity. Jolio...
In 1826, Sojourner Truth (circa 1797–1883) and her baby daughter escaped slavery in Ulster County, New York. Soon after, she heard that her 5-year-old son, Peter, was illegally soldto a man in Alabama. Truth raised money for a lawyer, filed a complaint in court, and successfully got Peter out of his enslavement—a landmark case in which a Black woma...
As the wife of President John Adams, Abigail Adams (1744–1818) was the second first lady of the United States. Because her husband was frequently away from home for work, she often single-handedly ran their farm, wrote letters supporting equal rights for women and the abolition of slavery, and educated their five kids who survived into childhood—in...
Irena Sendler (1910–2008) was a Polish employee at the Warsaw Social Welfare Department who smuggled almost 2500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust, saving their lives. Using the code name Jolanta, she gave these children false identification documents, established temporary (non-Jewish) identities for them, and placed th...
Kathy Headlee, a mother of seven (the youngest of whom she adopted from Romania), started Mothers Without Bordersto help orphaned children around the world. Beginning in 1992, she led a group of volunteers to distribute relief supplies to orphanages and train caregivers in Romania. Since then, Mothers Without Borders has sent volunteers to help chi...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) was the first Black woman in America to publish a short story. Harper had a way with words: She was a prolific poet and lecturer who traveled the country giving speeches arguing for abolition and women’s rights. Her words appeared so frequently in anti-slavery newspapers that she became known as “the mother ...
Famous as the mother of Genghis Khan, Hoelun (1142–1221) survived getting kidnapped, widowhood, and being an outcast on her journey to becoming the mother and advisor to one of the largest empires in world history (as well as being one of the few people who could yell at Genghis and get away with it). Around the time of her first marriage, she was ...
In 1980, a hit-and-run drunk driver killed one of Candy Lightner’s 13-year-old twin daughters, Cari. The driver had three prior convictions for drunk driving, and had been arrested two days earlier for a different hit-and-run. Within a few months, Lightner founded Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) to end drunk driving, pass tougher legislation, ...
In 1970, when she was 5 years old, Waris Dirie became a victim of female genital mutilation in her home of Somalia. Then, when she was 13, her parents arranged for her to marry a man in his sixties; she ran away from home and eventually arrived in London. Although she worked as a successful model (and even appeared in a 1987 James Bond film), she r...
As India’s first female prime minister, Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) worked to institute democracy and create jobs to combat food shortages. She was responsible for India's green revolution, which made the country self-sufficient and no longer reliant on imported grains. “Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force...
Dec 10, 2013 · So with Mother’s Day fast approaching (May 10 in the US, March 15 in the UK – best not forget it), here are some of the best passages to get inspiration from before you post that card. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850)
Here's a list of famous literary works about mothers and motherhood: To My Mother - Edgar Allan Poe. Mother o' Mine - Rudyard Kipling. Mother and Babe - Walt Whitman. Mother's Day Proclamation - Julia Ward Howe. Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear - Robert Burns.
Apr 12, 2023 · From actors to poets to presidents, people from all walks of life have publicly lauded their own mothers with memorable quotes, and even shared their thoughts on motherhood as moms themselves.
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May 6, 2021 · But in fact, history is full of mothers who reached beyond the domestic sphere—courageous women who overcame societal barriers and changed the world for people far beyond their own children.
Mar 1, 2024 · This Mother's Day, let's make sure to honor the inspiring moms throughout history who also served as activists and important figures for young women today.
