Mothers and sons

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I want a girl just like the girl
That married dear old dad.

William Dillon

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Dillon, William. I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad). Composed by Harry Von Tilzer. Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co., 1911.

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Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Fate." The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor & Fields/London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Fate." The Conduct of Life, edited by Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 6, Belknap Press, 2004.

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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

Sigmund Freud

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Freud, Sigmund. "Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus 'Dichtung und Wahrheit [A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung und Warheit [Poetry and Truth].'" Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften [Journal of the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities]. Vol. 5, 1917, pp. 49–57.

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Freud, Sigmund. "A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung Und Wahrheit.'" The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, translated by James Strachey. Vol. 17, Vintage, 2001.

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And even as a crack fiend, Mama
You always was a black queen, Mama.

Tupac Shakur

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Dear Mama

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Shakur, Tupac. "Dear Mama." Me Against the World. Interscope Records/Jive Records, 1995.

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A son is a poor substitute for a lover.

Norman Bates

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Psycho. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Shamley Productions, 1960.

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O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.

Dinah Craik

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Craik, Dinah Mulock. "Magnus and Morna." Thirty Years: Being Poems, New and Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1881, sc. 2.

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Jill Bennett

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Bennett, Jill. "Sayings of the Week." The Observer, 12 Sept. 1982.

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Wow. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?

Back to the Future

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Back to the Future. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Amblin Entertainment, 1985.

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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

Olive Schreiner

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The Story of an African Farm

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Schreiner, Olive [published as Ralph Iron]. The Story of an African Farm. Chapman & Hall, 1883, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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A boy's best friend is his mother.

Norman Bates

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Psycho. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Shamley Productions, 1960.

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Thank God your mommy died givin' birth. If she'd have seen you, she'd have died of shame.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Touchstone Pictures/Universal Pictures/StudioCanal/Working Title Films/Blind Bard Pictures, 2000.

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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Martha Gellhorn

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Gellhorn, Martha. "Letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969." Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, edited by Caroline Moorehead. Holt, 2007. Originally a letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969.