You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attac… — Lynn Johnston

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

Lynn JohnstonCartoonist · American · b. 1947

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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. — Voltaire
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father. — Hugh Leonard
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. — Lynn Johnston
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Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it. — Lynn Johnston