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Top 15 Mary Blakely Quotes (2025 Update)

Mary Blakely Quote: “One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we’ll never meet.”

1. “One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we’ll never meet.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.”

2. “Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.”

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Mary Blakely Quote: “A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.”

3. “A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “In an ideal society, mothers and fathers would produce potty- trained, civilized, responsible new citizens while government and corporate leaders would provide a safe, healthy, economically just community.”

4. “In an ideal society, mothers and fathers would produce potty- trained, civilized, responsible new citizens while government and corporate leaders would provide a safe, healthy, economically just community.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.”

5. “Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary by pass. After such a monumental assault on the heart, it takes years to amend all the habits and attitudes that led up to it.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.”

6. “The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.”

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Mary Blakely Quote: “Families don’t always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.”

7. “Families don’t always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “Never accept an expert’s opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.”

8. “Never accept an expert’s opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.”

9. “In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.”

10. “Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.”

11. “The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “It’s an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.”

12. “It’s an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?”

13. “In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.”

14. “If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.”

15. “Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “Women aren’t trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.”

16. “Women aren’t trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”

17. “The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There’s an absurd expectation that the women’s movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone’s feelings.”

18. “We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There’s an absurd expectation that the women’s movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone’s feelings.”

— Mary Blakely

Mary Blakely Quote: “A mother can legitimately be said to ‘have a baby’ – but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.”

19. “A mother can legitimately be said to ‘have a baby’ – but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.”

— Mary Blakely

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