“Lovers she hated, though she loved their love.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Canto XVI, stanza 38 (tr. T. B. Harbottle)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
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“Whatever is praised everywhere else yields to Spain alone. It is she that spawns the toughest soldiers, the most experienced generals, the most eloquent orators, the most famous poets; she is the mother of judges—and the mother of Emperors. She gave the Empire the great Trajan, and then Hadrian; to her the Empire is indebted for you [Theodosius I].”
Dum Hispaniae uni quidquid ubique laudatur adsurgat. Haec durissimos milites, haec experientissimos duces, haec facundissimos oratores, haec clarissimos uates parit, haec iudicum mater haec principum est. Haec Traianum illum, haec deinceps Hadrianum misit imperio; huic te debet imperium.
"Panegyric of Theodosius" (389), as recorded in the Panegyrici Latini. Translation from C. E. V. Nixon and Barbara Saylor Rodgers, In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini (1994), p. 452 https://books.google.com/books?id=0WlC_UtU8M4C&pg=PA452&dq=%22It+is+she+that+spawns+the+toughest+soldiers%22&hl=en&sa=X#v=onepage&q=%22It%20is%20she%20that%20spawns%20the%20toughest%20soldiers%22&f=false, original Latin at p. 649 https://books.google.com/books?id=0WlC_UtU8M4C&pg=PA649&dq=%22It+is+she+that+spawns+the+toughest+soldiers%22&hl=en&sa=X#v=onepage&q=%22Haec%20durissimos%20milites%22&f=false.
“All my life my mother has told me I'm hard to shop for. She can't find the bacon aisle!”
Morgan Murphy (food critic) (1972) Southern writer
Source: <i>Bourbon & Bacon</i> (2014), p. 193
“[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.”
Barry Lyga (1971) American writer
Source: I Hunt Killers
“She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.”
Judith McNaught (1944) American writer
Source: Perfect