„Oh Max, you large lout, you arouse the eternal maternal in me.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„Men are looking for maternal solace in women, and that's the nature of heterosexuality. Now you tell me, who really has all the power?“
— Camille Paglia
„The more remote and unreal the personal mother is, the more deeply will the son's yearning for her clutch at his soul, awakening that primordial and eternal image of the mother for whose sake everything that embraces, protects, nourishes, and helps assumes maternal form, from the Alma Mater of the university to the personification of cities, countries, sciences and ideals.“
— C.G. Jung
„In brain and insight she is not as highly organised as I am. But then she is aware of this, and so lavishes on me the maternal protection which, for some reason, is what I have always most wished from everyone.“
— Virginia Woolf