Mothers by Betty Walters

Excerpts from The Feminine Mystique (1963)1Betty FriedanThe problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night—she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—Is this all?"For over fifteen years there was no word of this yearning in the millions of words written about women, for women, in all the columns, books and articles by experts telling women their role was to seek fulfillment as wives and mothers. Over and over women heard in voices of tradition and of Freudian sophistication that they could desire no greater destiny than to glory in their own femininity. Experts told them how to catch a man and keep him, how to breastfeed children and handle their toilet training, how to cope with sibling rivalry and adolescent rebellion; how to buy a dishwasher, bake bread, cook gourmet snails, and build a swimming pool with their own hands; how to dress, look, and act more feminine and make marriage more exciting; how to keep their husbands from dying young and their sons from growing into delinquents. They were taught to pity the neurotic, unfeminine, unhappy women who wanted to be poets or physicists or presidents. They learned that truly feminine women do not want careers, higher education, political rights—the independence and the opportunities that the old-fashioned feminists fought for. Some women, in their forties and fifties, still remembered painfully giving up those dreams, but more of the younger women no longer thought about them. A thousand expert voices applauded their femininity, their adjustment, their new maturity. All they had to do was devote their lives from earliest girlhood to finding a husband and bearing children.By the end of the nineteen-fifties, the average marriage age of women in America dropped to 20, and was still dropping, into the teens. Fourteen million girls were engaged by 17. The proportion of women attending college in comparison with men dropping from 47 per cent in 1920 to 35 per cent in 1958. A century earlier, women had fought for higher education, now girls went to college to get a husband. By the mid-fifties, 60 per cent dropped out of college to marry, or because they were afraid too much education would be a marriage bar. Colleges built dormitories for "married students," but the students were almost always the husbands. A new degree was instituted for the wives—"Ph.T." (Putting Husband Through)....By the end of the fifties, the United States birthrate was overtaking India's. The birth-control movement, renamed Planned Parenthood, was asked to find a method whereby women who had been advised that a third or fourth baby would be born dead or defective might have it anyhow. Statisticians were especially astounded at the fantastic increase in the number of babies among college women. Where once they had two children, now they had four, five, six. Women who had once wanted careers were now making careers out of having babies. So rejoiced Life magazine in a 1956 paean to the movement of American women back to the home.1 Betty Friedan, "The Feminine Mystique," in Peter B. Levy, ed., 100 Key Documents in American Democracy (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994), 431-436.In a New York hospital, a woman had a nervous breakdown when she found she could not breastfeed her baby. In other hospitals, women dying of cancer refused a drug which research had proved might save their lives: its side effects were said to be unfeminine. "If I have only one life, let me live it as a blonde, " a larger-than-life-sized picture of a pretty, vacuous woman proclaimed from newspaper, magazine, and drugstore ads. And across America, three out of every ten women dyed their hair blonde. They ate a chalk called Metrecal, instead of food, to shrink to the size of the thin young models. Department-store buyers reported that American women, since 1939, had become three and four sizes smaller. "Women are out to fit the clothes, instead of vice-versa," one buyer said.Interior decorators were designing kitchens with mosaic murals and original paintings, for kitchens were once again the center of women's lives. Home sewing became a million-dollar industry. Many women no longer left their homes, except to shop, chauffeur their children, or attend a social engagement with their husbands. Girls were growing up in America without ever having jobs outside the home. In the late fifties, a sociological phenomenon was suddenly remarked: a third of American women now worked, but most were no longer young and very few were pursuing careers. They were married women who held part-time jobs, selling or secretarial, to put their husbands through school, their sons through college, or to help pay the mortgage. Or they were widows supporting families. Fewer and fewer women were entering professional work. The shortages in the nursing, social work, and teaching professions caused crises in almost every American city. Concerned over the Soviet Union's lead in the space race, scientists noted that America's greatest source of unused brain-power was women. But girls would not study physics: it was "unfeminine." A girl refused a science fellowship at Johns Hopkins to take a job in a real-estate office. All she wanted, she said, was what every other American girl wanted—to get married, have four children and live in a nice house in a nice suburb.The suburban housewife—she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife—freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth and the illnesses of her grandmother. She was healthy, beautiful, educated, concerned only about her husband, her children, her home. She had found true feminine fulfillment. As a housewife and mother, she was respected as a full and equal partner to man in his world. She was free to choose automobiles, clothes, appliances, supermarkets; she had everything that women ever dreamed of.In the fifteen years after World War II, this mystique of feminine fulfillment became the cherished and self-perpetuating core of contemporary American culture. Millions of women lived their lives in the image of those pretty pictures of the American suburban housewife, kissing their husbands goodbye in front of the picture window, depositing their stationwagonsful of children at school, and smiling as they ran the new electric waxer over the spotless kitchen floor. They baked their own bread, sewed their own and their children's clothes, kept their new washing machines and dryers running all day. They changed the sheets on the beds twice a week instead of once, took the rug-hooking class in adult education, and pitied their poor frustrated mothers, who had dreamed of having a career. Their only dream was to be perfect wives and mothers; their highest ambition to have five children and a beautiful house, their only fight to get and keep their husbands. They had no thought for the unfeminine problems of the world outside the home; they wanted the men to make the major decisions. They gloried in their role as women, and wrote proudly on the census blank: "Occupation: housewife."...If the woman had a problem in the 1950's and 1960's, she knew that something must be wrong with her marriage, or with herself. Other women were satisfied with their lives, she thought. What kind of a woman was she if she did not feel this mysterious fulfillment waxing the kitchen floor? She was so ashamed to admit her dissatisfaction that she never knew how many other women shared it....But on an April morning in 1959, I heard a mother of four, having coffee with four other mothers in a suburban development fifteen miles from New York, say in a tone of quiet desperation, "the problem." And the others knew, without words, that she was not talking about a problem with her husband, or her children, or her home. Suddenly they realized they all shared the same problem, the problem that has no name. They began, hesitantly, to talk about it. Later, after they had picked up their children at nursery school and taken them home to nap, two of the women cried, in sheer relief, just to know they were not alone.Gradually I came to realize that the problem that has no name was shared by countless women in America. As a magazine writer I often interviewed women about problems with their children, or their marriages, or their houses, or their communities. But after a while I began to recognize the telltale signs of this other problem. I saw the same signs in suburban ranch houses and split-levels on Long Island and in New Jersey and Westchester County; in colonial houses in a small Massachusetts town; on patios in Memphis; in surburban and city apartments; in living rooms in the Midwest. Sometimes I sensed the problem, not as a reporter, but as a suburban housewife, for during this time I was also bringing up my own three children in Rockland County, New York. I heard echoes of the problem in college dormitories and semi-private maternity wards, at PTA meetings and luncheons of the League of Women Voters, at suburban cocktail parties, in station wagons waiting for trains, and in snatches of conversation overheard at Schrafft's. The groping words I heard from other women, on quiet afternoons when children were at school or on quiet evenings when husbands worked late, I think I understood first as a woman long before I understood their larger social and psychological implications.Just what was this problem that has no name? What were the words women used when they tried to express it? Sometimes a woman would say "I feel empty somehow ... incomplete." Or she would say, "I feel as if I don't exist.Sometimes she blotted out the feeling with a tranquilizer....It is no longer possible to ignore that voice, to dismiss the desperation of so many American women. This is not what being a woman means, no matter what the experts say. For human suffering there is a reason; perhaps the reason has not been found because the right questions have not been asked, or pressed far enough. I do not accept the answer that there is no problem because American women have luxuries that women in other times and lands never dreamed of; part of the strange newness of the problem is that it cannot be understood in terms of the age-old material problems of man: poverty, sickness, hunger, cold. The women who suffer this problem have a hunger that food cannot fill. It persists in women whose husbands are struggling interns and law clerks, or prosperous doctors and lawyers; in wives of workers and executives who make $5,000 a year or $50,000. It is not caused by lack of material advantages; it may not even be felt by women preoccupied with desperate problems of hunger, poverty or illness. And women who think it will be solved by more money, a bigger house, a second car, moving to a better suburb, often discover it gets worse.It is no longer possible today to blame the problem on loss of femininity: to say that education and independence and equality with men have made American women unfeminine. Ihave heard so many women try to deny this dissatisfied voice within themselves because it does not fit the pretty picture of femininity the experts have given them. I think, in fact, that this is the first clue to the mystery: the problem cannot be understood in the generally accepted terms by which scientists have studied women, doctors have treated them, counselors have advised them, and writers have written about them. Women who suffer this problem, in whom this voice is stirring, have lived their whole lives in the pursuit of feminine fulfillment. They are not career women (although career women may have other problems); they are women whose greatest ambition has been marriage and children. For the oldest of these women, these daughters of the American middle class, no other dream was possible. The ones in their forties and fifties who once had other dreams gave them up and threw themselves joyously into life as housewives. For the youngest, the new wives and mothers, this was the only dream. They are the ones who quit high school and college to marry, or marked time in some job in which they had no real interest until they married. These women are very "feminine" in the usual sense, and yet they still suffer the problem....If I am right, the problem that has no name stirring in the minds of so many American women today is not a matter of loss of femininity or too much education, or the demands of domesticity. It is far more important than anyone recognizes. It is the key to these other new and old problems which have been torturing women and their husbands and children, and puzzling their doctors and educators for years. It may well be the key to our future as a nation and a culture. We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: "I want something more than my husband and my children and my home."。

who was mother Teresa读后感Mother TeresaMother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, dedicated the majority of her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus gaining her the name "Saint of the Gutters." The devotion towards the poor won her respect throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She founded an order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India dedicated to serving the poor. Almost 50 years later, the Missionaries of Charity have grown from 12 sisters in India to over 3,000 in 517 missions throughout 100 countries worldwide.Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Whales, is remembered and respected by people all over the world more for her beauty, kindness, humanity and charitable activities than for her technical skills.在慈善界，特蕾莎修女（Mother Teresa）可谓有口皆碑。

特里莎嬷嬷英语作文节选Mother Teresa, a diminutive Albanian nun, became one of the most revered figures of the 20th century. Her tireless work with the poor and destitute in Calcutta, India, earned her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. But behind the public image of the saintly missionary was a complex and often misunderstood human being.Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, in 1910. Her family was devoutly Catholic, and she felt a calling to religious life from an early age. At the age of 18, she joined the Sisters of Loreto, a teaching order, and was sent to India in 1929.Mother Teresa taught at a girls' school in Calcutta for many years, but she was increasingly drawn to the plight of the poor and homeless. In 1948, she received a divine calling to leave the convent and work among the poorest of the poor. She adopted the name Teresa after Saint Teresa of Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries.Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, a religious order dedicated to serving the poor and sick. The order quickly grew, and Mother Teresa soon opened homes for the dying, orphanages, and leper colonies throughout Calcutta and beyond.Mother Teresa's work was not without its critics. Some accused her of being too focused on physical suffering and not enough on spiritual needs. Others criticized her forher close association with the Catholic Church and her opposition to abortion and contraception.Despite the criticism, Mother Teresa's work continuedto grow. She opened homes for the poor and sick in over 100 countries, and her order now has over 4,000 members. Shewas awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her "work for the betterment of mankind."Mother Teresa died in Calcutta in 1997 at the age of 87. She was canonized a saint by the Catholic Church in 2016.Mother Teresa was a complex and often misunderstood figure. She was a devout Catholic who believed that her work was a calling from God. She was also a tireless advocate for the poor and sick, and her work has made a difference in the lives of millions of people around the world.。

感恩母亲的英语小诗欣赏母亲的爱像一片一望无际的大海，抚慰我们的心田。

店铺整理了感恩母亲的英语小诗，欢迎阅读!感恩母亲的英语小诗篇一“M” is for the million things she gave me,“O” means only that she is growing old,“T” is for the tears she shed to save me,“H” is for her heart of purest gold,“E” is for her eyes,with love-light shining,“R” means right,and right she will always be.Put them all together,they spell “MOTHER”,A word that means the world to me.---Howard Johnson(c.1915)译文：M代表着母亲给予了我们一切，O意味着与此同时她正在衰老，T象征着她为了拯救我们流的泪，H表明了她最无私最伟大的心灵，E是她充满着爱万分温柔的眼神，R说明着正确，并且代表着她永恒的真理。

把他们和在一起，便是母亲，一个代表着最无私最伟大的给予了我所有全部的词。

作者：Howard Johnson感恩母亲的英语小诗篇二Mother MachreeThere's a spot in my heartwhich no colleen may own;There's a depth in my soulnever sounded or known;There's a place in my memorymy life that you fill;No other can take itno one ever will;Every sorrow or carein the dear days gone by;Was made bright by the lightof the smile in your eye;Like a candle that's setin a window at night;Your fond love has cheered me and guided me right; Sure I love the dear silverthat shines in your hair;And the brow that's all furrowedand wrinkled with care;I kiss the dear fingersso toil warm for me;Oh! God bless you andkeep you, mother machree!《慈母颂》在我的心灵之中有个地方，深不可测其境从未与闻哪个少女也难问津;在我的记忆之中我的生命充满你的身影谁也不能取代永远无人有此真情;珍贵时光悠悠逝去辛劳烦扰却永不消停你眼中的微笑，其光彩使烦劳转为光明;宛如点燃的烛光深夜透窗棂你深情的爱激励我引领我一直前进;是的，我爱你如银的发丝闪烁着深情的光芒我爱你额上道道皱纹岁月刻满沧桑我吻你勤劳的手指双手柔情温暖我心房;啊，慈母在我心苍天保佑，福寿永绵长!感恩母亲的英语小诗篇三MothersFriends and lovers may come and go,but mothers are forever as you know!Mothers love you good or bad,My mothers the very best freind,I've ever had.There is nothing more precious on earth,other than the day when she gave birth.No matter how far away or so near,your the one that I hold so dear!Now there's only one more thing to say...happy...Happy...Happy Mothers Day!Betty Jean Walters。

MotherTongue(母语)byAmyTanMother Tongue (母语)AmyTan Thelifehistoryoftheindividualisfirstandforemostanaccommodationtothepatternsandstandardst raditionallyhandeddowninhiscommunity.—byRuthBenedict个人的生命历程，首当其冲，是对其传统文化模式和标准的接受—鲁思.本尼迪克特IamnotascholarofEnglishorliterature.IcannotgiveyoumuchmorethanpersonalopinionsontheEn glishlanguageanditsvariationsinthiscountryorothers.我既不是英语语言学家，也不是文学专家。

我只能就英语及其在美国和其它国家的变化谈些个人观点，仅此而已。

Iamawriter.Andbythatdefinition,Iamsomeonewhohasalwayslovedlanguage.Iamfascinatedbyl anguageindailylife.Ispendagreatdealofmytimethinkingaboutthepoweroflanguage—thewayitc anevokeanemotion,avisualimage,acompleGidea,nguageisthetoolofmytrade .AndIusethemall—alltheEnglishesIgrewupwith.我是个作家，按作家的定义，我是那种一直热爱语言的人。

我着迷于日常生活中的语言。

我花费了很长时间来思考语言的力量—语言是如何唤起情感、视觉景象、复杂思想或简明真理。

语言是我的执业工具。

我应用所有的英语—与我一生相伴的所有英语形式。

Recently,IwasmadekeenlyawareofthedifferentEnglishesIdouse.Iwasgivingatalktoalargegroup ofpeople,thesametalkIhadalreadygiventohalfadozenothergroups.Thenatureofthetalkwasabou tmywriting,mylife,andmybook,TheJoyLuckClub.ThetalkwasgoingalongwellenoughuntilIreme mberedonemajordifferencethatmadethewholetalksoundwrong.Mymotherwasintheroom.Andi twasperhapsthefirsttimeshehadheardmegivealengthyspeech,usingthekindofEnglishIhavenev erusedwithher.Iwassayingthingslike,”Theintersectionofmemoryuponimagination”and“Thereis anaspectofmyfictionthatrelatestothus-and-thus”---aspeechfilledwithcarefullywroughtgramma ticalphrases,burdened,itsuddenlyseemedtome,withnominalizedforms,pastperfecttenses,cond itionalphrases,alltheformsofstandardEnglishthatIhadlearnedinschoolandthroughbooks,thefor msofEnglishIdidnotuseathomewithmymother.最近发生的一些事使我对我所用的不同形式的英语有了更为深刻的认识。

希望之星英语大赛演讲稿篇一：XX希望之星小学组英语演讲稿6篇1.学生两分钟英语演讲稿Good morning everyone, today is my turn to the speech. First of all, I would like to say that a quick test, we hope that the good preparation, good test for all, is the only way home for a good year. My English is not high, I wish I could within the next two years to learn English well. I hope you will be able to learn English after graduation to have a good future. Finally, I wish the students and teachers a happy new year, further study and work. Well! I finished the speech. Thank you for listening。

大家早上好，今天是轮到我讲话。

首先，我要说的是，快速测试，我们希望很好的准备，良好的测试的所有，是唯一回家的路上有一个良好的一年。

我的英语水平不高，我希望我能在未来两年内学好英语。

我希望，你将能够学习英语毕业后有一个美好的未来。

最后，我祝愿学生和教师的快乐新的一年里，进一步研究和工作。

好!我完成了讲话。

谢谢你听。

2.英语两分钟自我介绍演讲稿Hello,everyone!Today I am very happy,Because I can talk about with see I ama lovely girl,yes!I like laughing,I like `s me-- zhuyingjie from Badong shiyan primary am eight. I am young but I know “we are the masters of nature.” We have only one earth. But now,the environment becomes worse and worse. As you know,there's no enough clean water for people. So many of them lose their lives because of we take good care of our earth today,it will be more beautiful tomorrow.My dear friend let us start from the trivial side,To be a good kid keeper.3.小学英语3分钟演讲稿My favourite super star is JJ , he has a lovely dimple and his eyes are also very lovely . Now let me tell you the story about JJ .He enterde the music indestry at the year XX ,before that year ,he was only a boy who wrote songs for many super stars ,his songs were liked by many people but no one care who was the writer . He was noly hard to write songs because he like music ,he thought music has it soal , if you sing it by heart , it well be lived .I like a song of him , it's name is CRIES IN A DISTANCE , the song tells us ,nothing is sad if we belive the hope . He has many difficulty , but his song says , cries in a distance , can't stop the tremble , I'm just waiting my turn , hiding will never , save me forever , the guns gonne get me for sure . Dear god I pray why won't you be my friend , come to me and take my hand ,like mama would say everything will be ok.Now he is not rather a shy singer and performer , the lyrical songs make him mature ,and now he is a man or not a boy .He is a real super star with many fans ,the improve mark a big step forward confident .4. I love English 我喜欢英语I love EnglishMy honorable teachers , my beloved morning everyone，may I have your attention，please I am glad to be able to give a lecture on this classroom. This once , I want to talk about English. My topic of conversation is that I love English.As everyone knows,English is very important has been used everywhere in the has become the most common language on Internet and for international trade. If we can speak English well,we will have more chance to more and more people have taken notice of it,the number of the people who go to learn English has increased at a high speed.But for myself,I learn English not only because of its importance and its usefulness,but also because of my love for I learn English, I can feel a different way of thinking which gives me more room to touch the I read English novels,I can feel the pleasure from the book which is different from reading the I speak English, I can feel the confident from my I write English,I can see the beauty which is not the same as our Chinese...I love English,it gives me a colorful hope I can travel around the world one day. With my good English, I can make friends with many people from different can see many places of great dream that I can go to London,because it is the birth place of English.I also want to use my good English to introduce our great places to the English spoken people,I hope that they can love our country like us.I know, Rome was not built in a day. I believe that after continuous hard study, one day I can speak English very well.If you want to be loved, you should learn to love and be lovable. So I believe as I love English everyday , it will love me too.I am sure that I will realize my dream one day!Thank you!5. 小学生英语演讲比赛稿：Our School我的学校Good morning, my dear teachers and friends! My name is Li Bingke, from class four O five. Today, I am very happy to be here. My topic is “Our School”.My dear friends, welcome to our school! My school is very beautiful! It has a big playground. We can play and do some sports there. Near the playground, there is a garden. Many trees and flowers are there. So the air is very clean and we can hear birds singing in the trees. It is so wonderful. Our teaching buildings are around the garden and look like our teachers’ arms to welcome us. We can draw pictures in the art room on the first floor and read story-books in the library on the second floor. My classroom is on the third floor. It is clean and bright. We like to study in it. The computer room is on the fifth floor. We can sing and dance in the music room on the sixth floor. What a lot of fun! We can have lunch in the canteen near Defang Teaching Building.In our school, our teachers work hard and help us with our lessons. We study hard and listen to teachers carefully. After class, our teachers play with us and we feel very happy.Our school is so nice and our teachers are so kind. We all love them. Dear friends, do you like themThat's all. Thanks!早上好，我亲爱的老师和朋友们!我的名字是李Bingke ，来自一流的四个 5 。

♫Turn on your speakers!That WonderfulWoman CalledMother INSPIRATIONAL THOUGHTS ON MOTHERHOODMost of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.--Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923), U.S. Author and EducatorMama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love, and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is thatsweet flower of love.—Stevie Wonder All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual, and physical education I received from her.—George Washington No influence is so powerful as that ofthe mother.—Sarah Josepha HaleMotherhood is the most important of all the professions, requiring more knowledge than any other departmentin human affairs.--Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), U.S. Campaigner for Women's Suffrage From my experience and observation, if a family is held together in difficult circumstances, nine times out of ten it's the woman who's doing it.--Roddy Doyle (1958-), Irish Novelist and PlaywrightMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.--William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British Novelist The strength of motherhood is greaterthan natural laws.—Barbara Kingsolver The role of a mother is probably the most important career a woman can have.--Janet Mary Riley (1915-), U.S. Lawyer and WriterAn ounce of mother is worth apound of clergy.--Spanish Proverb My mother was the making of me.--Thomas A. Edison All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. No man is poor who hasa godly mother.--Abraham LincolnRejecting things because they are old-fashioned would rule out the sun and the moon and a mother's love.--Author Unknown Women and children, mother andchild--these belong together asnaturally as heaven and earth.--Tang Min (1956-), Chinese Writer Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.—Katharine Butler HathawayThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will alwaysfind forgiveness.--Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French Novelist Life began with waking up and lovingmy mother's face.--George Eliot (1819-1880), British Novelist Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secrethope outlives them all.—Oliver Wendell HolmesThe noblest calling in the world is that of a mother. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind, but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will be exerting an influence throughout the ages, long after paintings shall have faded and books and statues shall have been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give.—David O. McKayThe hand that rocks the cradleIs the hand that rules the world.--William Ross Wallace (1819-1881), U.S. Poet and Songwriter HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!Send this to your mother & all the other mothers you know!For more PowerPoint messages visit:。

郭沫若母爱英文版The Boundless Love of Mother: A Tribute to Guo MoruoGuo Moruo, a renowned Chinese poet, playwright, and historian, once said, "A mother's love is the most sacred of all loves." This sentiment resonates profoundly, for a mother's love is indeed a force that transcends time and space, a bond that defies all boundaries. In the life of Guo Moruo, the unwavering love of his mother played a pivotal role in shaping the man he became.Guo Moruo's mother, Madame Sun, was a woman of remarkable strength and resilience. Born into a prominent family, she faced a life of hardship and adversity from a young age. As a child, she witnessed the upheaval of the Taiping Rebellion, a violent civil war that ravaged much of China. Forced to flee her home, she endured the harsh realities of life on the road, yet her spirit remained unbroken.In the face of such challenges, Madame Sun's dedication to her family only grew stronger. She instilled in her children the values of perseverance, humility, and a deep appreciation for education. Guo Moruo, the youngest of her four children, was the recipient of herunwavering love and guidance.From a tender age, Guo Moruo was captivated by his mother's unwavering commitment to the family. He observed her tireless efforts to provide for her children, working tirelessly to ensure they had the resources they needed to thrive. Whether it was mending their clothes, preparing nourishing meals, or encouraging their academic pursuits, Madame Sun's devotion knew no bounds.As Guo Moruo grew older, he came to understand the true depth of his mother's love. In times of hardship and uncertainty, she was a pillar of strength, offering solace and comfort with her warm embrace and soothing words. Her unwavering faith in her children's abilities inspired them to reach for their dreams, propelling them towards a future filled with endless possibilities.Guo Moruo's own accomplishments, which spanned a wide range of disciplines, can be seen as a testament to the transformative power of his mother's love. Her unwavering belief in him fueled his passion for learning and drove him to push the boundaries of his own potential. Whether he was immersed in the world of poetry, delving into the intricacies of history, or exploring the realms of philosophy, Guo Moruo carried with him the indelible imprint of his mother's love.One of the most poignant expressions of Guo Moruo's gratitude towards his mother can be found in his poem "Mother." In this heartfelt tribute, he writes, "Mother you are the source of all life / Your love is the light that guides my way." These powerful words encapsulate the depth of his reverence and the profound impact Madame Sun had on his life.Throughout his illustrious career, Guo Moruo remained ever mindful of the sacrifices his mother had made for him and his siblings. He understood that her love was not merely a sentiment, but a transformative force that had shaped the very fabric of his being. It was this understanding that drove him to honor his mother's memory, to live a life that would make her proud.In the twilight of his life, Guo Moruo reflected on the enduring legacy of his mother's love. He realized that her influence had transcended the boundaries of their family, touching the lives of countless others who had been inspired by his own achievements. In a sense, Madame Sun's love had become a beacon, guiding not just her own children, but generations of individuals who aspired to follow in Guo Moruo's footsteps.The story of Guo Moruo and his mother's love is a testament to the power of the maternal bond. It is a reminder that even in the face of immense challenges, the love of a mother can be a transformativeforce, shaping the lives of those it touches and leaving an indelible mark on the world. As we honor the memory of Guo Moruo, let us also pay tribute to the countless mothers whose unwavering love has the power to inspire, to heal, and to pave the way for a better tomorrow.。

咱们吃素吧!如果有一件事，既能增进健康、减少患上食物引起的疾病的危险，又有助于保护环境、保护千万动物安全生存，你做不做？我说的这件事就是每次坐下来就餐时挑选菜肴。

一百多万加拿大人已经行动起来：他们决定不吃肉。

变化速度之快令人惊叹。

素食品的销售额大大增加，前所未有。

尤受欢迎的是无肉汉堡包和热狗，以及以蔬为主的印度、中国、墨西哥、意大利和日本的菜肴。

推动人们转向素食的是医学研究提出的关于如何增进健康的建议。

一项又一项的研究都揭示了同样的基本事实：果蔬降低患慢性病的危险；肉类食品则增加这种危险。

美国饮食学协会指出，“科学资料表明，素食与降低多种慢性变性疾病的患病危险肯定有关系。

”去年秋天，在检验了4500个饮食与癌症的研究报告之后，世界癌症研究基金会直截了当地指出：“我们一向利用不合适的养料来维持人类生理引擎的运转。

”据威尔夫大学营养科学教授布鲁斯·霍拉勃称，这一“不合适的养料”致使加拿大每年用于治疗变性疾病的费用高达4000亿（加）元。

肉类食品存在严重的营养缺陷：它们不含纤维，含有过多的饱和脂肪和胆固醇，甚至可能含有微量的激素、类固醇和抗菌素。

牛肉、猪肉、鸡肉或鱼肉都一样。

肉类食品也是越来越广为人知的大肠杆菌、弯曲菌以及其他致病细菌的孳生地。

据加拿大食品检验机构称，十分之六的鸡染有沙门氏菌。

吃肉无异于玩俄式轮盘赌，拿你的健康做赌资。

既然如此，政府为什么不采取任何措施？很遗憾，政府屈服于强有力的院外活动集团的压力，如牛肉信息中心、加拿大禽蛋营销公司、加拿大乳牛场场主协会等。

根据信息自由法案获得的有关文件记载，这些集团迫使加拿大最新食品指南在1993年公布前作出修改。

这并不奇怪。

即使建议动物蛋白质的摄入量减少一丁点儿都会给这些企业带来每年数十亿元的损失。

健康和食品安全是选择素食生活方式令人信服的理由，但此外还有更为重大的因素要考虑。

以饲养动物为基础的农业是世界上对环境破坏最严重的产业之一。

想一想培育、饲养、建牲畜栏、运输、加工和包装加拿大每年宰杀的5亿头牲畜所需的巨大资源。