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“You are the care taker. The warrior over all wounds. The soother from dreams gone bad. The master of making sure everyone stays healthy and gets a balanced meal. The one who sends her children off to school happy and with homework done. You are the booster of self confidence. You are a multi tasker and problem solver. You are a mom.”

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

“An understanding of what relationship means like Joseph Campbell says ‘There is a difference between a love affair and a marriage. A love affair ends as soon as the romance and the excitement ends, but a marriage is a commitment.’ It’s kind of a dying of ones self. Thats what a marriage is about, you kind of have to understand that you have to work for the greater good.” - Viola Davis

Gwyneth Paltrow cites her father’s practical advice on the secret to a long lasting marriage. “My Parents were married for 30 -something years, and he said (it was) because they never wanted to get divorced at the same time. I think you fall in and out of love and you just keep going, and every time you go through a really difficult phase, you rediscover something new and it just gets better. We’ve been married for more than eight years now, and we’re still into it.” - Gwyneth Paltrow Interview for Bazaar

“My mother told me that if you have a choice between being respected and being loved, Always choose being respected. Because if you someone respects you love may come, but if they love you without respect it will go.” - Governor Chris Christie on Oprah’s Next Chapter

“We focused three years on our marriage and found that it brought us an even stronger bond and connection. But like anything great and successful in your life, marriage takes hard work and sacrifice. It has to be something both you and your husband deeply want. The best thing about marriage is the amount of growth you have because you can no longer hide from your fears and insecurities. There’s someone right there calling you out on your flaws and building you up when you need the support. If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.” - Beyonce for Bazaar Magazine

“We carve out time for ourselves. I think we’re better parents because date night gives us something to look forward to, a night where we’re not saying, ‘Put that down, stop touching her, don’t spill that.’ Sometimes we’ll put the kids to bed early and watch Jersey Shore on DVR. It can be that simple, just the two of us, alone, one day a week, for dinner and hijinks…a little bump and tickle. Woo-hoo! I’m 40. I can say that now.” - Kelly Ripa

“It’s interesting to see when a child walks in the room, whether it’s your child or anybody else’s child… Does your face light up? When my children used to walk in the room when they were little I looked at them to see if they had buckled their trousers or if their hair was combed or if their socks were up. And so you think your affection and your deep love is on display because you are caring for them, but it’s not. When they see you, They see the critical face and think “What’s wrong now?” But if you let your face speak whats in your heart, because when they walked in the room I was glad to see them. It’s just as small as that you see. It was a lesson I had to learn from my own children. Does your face light up? Do they see in your eyes that your really glad they are there? ” Toni Morrison

“I was the mother and I did my job being the mother. Ralph was the one who was breadwinner and he would come home and be home every night and be the Daddy. The weekends we were playing with the children and going places with them. Together we built whatever is was we built because we both love similar things and both had a passion for a lifestyle.” - Ricky Lauren on Her 46 Year Marriage to Ralph Lauren

“And in the most surprising fact of my life. That at one point I thought I was incapable of feeling and unworthy of achieving I am still in love with my wife. After almost 20 years of marriage I look at her face and see her radiant light and hold her and feel our hard earned times and sometimes difficult history passing between us enveloping us in an aurora of comfort, gratitude and profound attraction. If you would have asked me when I was a young punk what is the best thing that would have come my way I would have said “Making a movie with Martin Scorsese.” But God had other plans, he gave me Cheryl.” - Rob Lowe on wife Cheryl on Oprah

“That it has to be a true partnership and you have to really really like and respect the person that you are married to because it is a hard road. I mean that is what I tell young couples, don’t expect it to be easy, mending two lives and trying to raise others and doing it forever… That is a recipe made for disaster. So there are highs and lows, but if in the end if you can look him in the eye and say I like you. I stopped believing in love at first sight, I think you go through that wonderful love stage, but when it gets hard you need a little bit more.” - On What She Knows after 18 Years of Marriage

“My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.” - Elizabeth Taylor

Lauren Bacall on Being Mrs. Bogart

I ask if she felt that her acting career was hurt by being Bogart’s wife. “Oh, yes, because he wanted a wife. He didn’t want an actress,” she says. “He’d been married to three actresses [Helen Menken and Mary Philips, before Methot], and from the beginning he said to me, ‘I love you, and if you want a career, I’ll do everything I can to help you, but I won’t marry you.’ He wanted a wife that would go with him and be there, and he was dead right. And that’s what I wanted, and that’s why I wanted children. He had never had a child. So I was Miss Pushy in that way. But I was happy being his wife. I loved it. Because I really loved him.” - Vanity Fair, March 2011

“As a housewife, she had a light touch- She did not seem overburdened or cranky, she didn’t remind the rest of us how much she did- and yet she sewed many of her own and my clothes, kept the house meticulous, and always prepared our meals. The food we ate was acceptable more often then delicious; she favored pan broiled steak or noodle and cheese loafs, and she taught me her recipes in a low key, literal way, never explaining why I needed to know them. Why wouldn’t I need to know them? She was endlessly patient and a purveyor of small sweet gestures: Without commenting, she’d leave pretty ribbons or peppermint candies on my bed or, on my bureau, a single flower in a three inch vase.” - American Wife by: Curtis Sittenfeld

“Invest in what’s real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn’t have to be complicated. It will be what is will be.”

-Gwyneth Paltrow

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” - Marilyn Monroe

“She felt sorry for everyone in the world because they couldn’t feel as she did. Oh you poor people, you think this is just another cold day. Look at me - I want to tell you how happy I am! The whole world belongs to me. In this very house there is a man, the most wonderful man in the world, and he belongs to me.” - Valley of The Dolls

John Foreman later summarized the classic conundrum of marriages in the 1950s: “The guy rides up on a white horse, sweeps the girl off her feet, and says, ‘Marry me and I’ll give you everything you want.’ Years pass and the wife comes to the painful conclusion that she is miserable. ‘Why are you unhappy?’ asks the husband. ‘What do you want?’ ‘I don’t know,’ the wife responds helplessly. ‘I thought you knew and were going to give it to me.’ ” - Vanity Fair.Com

“When one vows at the onset of a marriage to live together “for better or worse” one anticipates little of the “for worse” scenario. Yet heartache , tragedy, sickness and death are invariably a part of the marriage, especially in the later years. Then one is particularly grateful for the support and love of a lifelong partner- someone who remembers you as you once were and who continues to care for you as you are now. To be the intimate witness of another person’s life is a privilege one can full appreciate with time. To have weathered the storms of early and middle marriage- the turmoil of children, the death of one’s parents, the adult struggles of ones own children- can create an irreplaceable attachment to the person who has shared that history with you.”

- History of Wife by Marilyn Yalom

“Greed, meaning an unseemly or immoral desire for more, does not exist because there is nothing wrong with want. No one except Scrooge McDuck wants money for its own sake. We want it for what it’ll buy.

Consider how silly it is to apply the concept of greed to the things money gets. If I want fresh fruits and vegetables instead of Spaghetti-Os, am I guilty of nutritional greed? If I want first-class instead of steerage, am I guilty of leg-room greed? If I want to drive my kid around in a Range Rover/Escalade/M1 Abrams Tank instead of a tiny, tinny death trap am I guilty of safety greed? Wanting things to be better is human. Is it immoral to be human?

Greed is a term applied exclusively to other people who are doing better than we are. At some higher tax bracket, people supposedly have “enough” and should stop trying to make their lives better. (Never mind that greed would, if it existed, obviously be good — high earners spread money to the McMansion builders, the BMW dealers and all the way down to the waitresses and shoeshine men. This process is called a “multiplier effect” if government spending drives it, “trickle-down economics” if it’s in the private sector.)

How can there ever be such a thing as “enough?” If you live to be 90 and are still healthy, you will have had a much longer run than most. Should you kill yourself? If you have a nice house, why wouldn’t you work to add a swimming pool? Why shouldn’t you, like Jerry Seinfeld, build a full-sized baseball field? Who are the victims of Jerry’s “greed?” Hamptons landscapers?

“What ’s Wrong with Wanting More? Nothing” - Kyle Smith, Ny Post