A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. – Peter De Vries

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Mothers
category

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease. – Lisa Alther

Category:
Mothers

Women who miscalculate are called mothers. – Abigail Van Buren

Category:
Mothers

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Mothers

What are Raphael’s Madonnas but the shadow of a mother’s love, fixed in permanent outline forever? – Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Category:
Mothers

Random Quotes

Truth is a great flirt. – Franz Liszt

Category:
Truth

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. – Thomas Carlyle

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. – Jo Godwin

Category:
Libraries

So the premise of The Submission is that theres an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and its won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan. – Amy Waldman

Category:
design