A silly daughter teaches her mother how to bear children.

愚蠢的女儿教她的母亲如何生孩子。

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.

灵魂就像，你的母亲，我的父亲，他们创造了灵魂。他们可以改变，但他们改变的方式是充满爱的，因为他们已经来到了上帝面前。大多数人都能做到。

A stepmother has a hard hand.

继母的手段很严厉。

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

女人必须同时扮演母亲、妻子和政治家的角色。

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

大约六个月后，我告诉妈妈，我想停止上课，她很聪明，不会强迫我继续。此外，上课要花钱，这在我们家里一点也不充裕。

After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.

母亲去世后，我发现她的一本小书，里面记录了我所做的一切，我是怎样做的，以及她为她的儿子康拉德感到多么骄傲。

All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.

所罗门国王的矿山的魅力似乎就在那些大山的后面，我想补充一点，这对母亲来说是一种超前的工作，是我在刚果多年不见踪影的一个楔子。

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

永远是教母，永远不是母亲。这糟透了。我得给自己买个小配件。

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

我的孩子们没有合法的权利要求得到一个名字，这总是使我感到痛苦。

An indulgent mother makes a sluttish daughter.

溺爱孩子的母亲会使女儿放荡。

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

一盎司母亲抵得上一磅牧师。

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

我以女儿的身份来到这里，在芝加哥南部长大——父亲是一名蓝领城市工人，母亲和我哥哥一起呆在家里。

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

随着年龄的增长，我只扮演母亲。

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

因此，我们的母亲和祖母们常常以匿名的方式，把他们自己从未希望看到的那朵花的种子——或者像一封密封的信一样，他们无法清楚地读懂——创造性的火花传递下去。

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

作为一名教师、母亲和祖母，我亲身体会到优质教育的重要性。