Source: Facets of a Diamond: Reflections of a Healer (2002), p. 269
Harry Harlow (1905–1981) American psychologist
on the parental behavior of monkeys whose social behaviors he had destroyed in their infancy.
as quoted in Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, by Deborah Blum, Perseus Publishing, 2002
“The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Love and Death (1975)
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Attributed to Reverend Theodore Hesburgh in Sol Gordon Let's Make Sex a Household Word: A Guide for Parents and Children (John Day Company, 1975), p. 79
Misattributed
Khalil Gibran book Jesus, The Son of Man
Nicodemus The Poet, The Youngest Of The Elders In The Sanhedrim: On Fools And Jugglers
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Context: There are the men who say, "He preached tenderness and kindliness and filial love, yet He would not heed His mother and His brothers when they sought Him in the streets of Jerusalem."
They do not know that His mother and brothers in their loving fear would have had Him return to the bench of the carpenter, whereas He was opening our eyes to the dawn of a new day.
His mother and His brothers would have had Him live in the shadow of death, but He Himself was challenging death upon yonder hill that He might live in our sleepless memory.
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
Summations, Chapter 61
Context: The mother may suffer the child to fall sometimes, and to be hurt in diverse manners for its own profit, but she may never suffer that any manner of peril come to the child, for love. And though our earthly mother may suffer her child to perish, our heavenly Mother, Jesus, may not suffer us that are His children to perish: for He is All-mighty, All-wisdom, and All-love; and so is none but He, — blessed may He be!
“A mother’s traditional role prepared her to love her family by being with the family she loved.”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
