Mothering Sunday

‘Thank you sister. May you be the mother of a Bishop!’

said to a nun nursing him on his death bed.

Brendan Behan 1923-1964

‘I’ll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.’

Beatrice Lillie 1898-?

‘The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.’ Explaining to a snobbish lady why he had been born in such an unfashionable place as Lowell in Massachusetts.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1834-1903

‘Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father’s earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps and watches television.’

Germaine Greer 1939 – (The Female Eunuch)

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

Oscar Wilde 1854-1900

Remembering too those of us whose mothers are in a better place especially the two little boys both in Britain and America.