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Mother is a 1999 Russian feature film based on the capture of an Ovechkin family in 1988. Plot This story began a long time ago. Having lost her husband, who was imprisoned for stealing coal and was killed during the escape, Polina, the mother of six children, was left without any support. To make ends meet, Polina founded a family folk music ensemble. Soon, however, she realizes that her children were worthy of a better fate, and she makes a desperate decision to escape the Soviet Union by hijacking the commercial airliner the family was traveling aboard. Fifteen years later, Polina is released from prison to learn that fate has scattered her children all over the country: one is illegally fighting in a bar, another is chopping coal in the Donbas. Her oldest, Leonid, is still in a psychiatric hospital, having pretended to be mentally ill for 15 years to avoid prosecution for the hijacking.

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“How vastly important is it, then, for mothers to have a higher regard for their duties—to feel deeply the immense responsibilities that rest upon them! It is through their ministrations that the world grows worse or better.”
— Timothy Shay Arthur, The Mother’s Rule; or, The Right Way and the Wrong Way (1856), Preface
“I saw that God rejoiceth that He is our Father, and God rejoiceth that He is our Mother, and God rejoiceth that He is our Very Spouse and our soul is His loved Wife. And Christ rejoiceth that He is our Brother, and Jesus rejoiceth that He is our Saviour. These are five high joys, as I understand, in which He willeth that we enjoy; Him praising, Him thanking, Him loving, Him endlessly blessing.”
— Julian of Norwich, in Revelations of Divine Love (c.1393), Ch. 58
“A Kanga is Generally Regarded as One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the ordinary way, but it is well known that, if One of the Fiercer Animals is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer Animals.”
— A. A. Milne, in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
“A child should behave with modesty toward his mother.”
— Sumerian proverb from Urim, Text online at , .
“Wives haven't enough to do today. Scientific mass production has made their tasks so easy that they are overburdened with time. They utilize this time in destroying the happiness of their children.”
— John B. Watson as quoted in Buckley, K.W. (1989). Mechanical Man: John Broadus Watson and the Beginnings of Behaviorism. New York: The Guilford Press. p.162
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Volume II, Chapter XII.

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Notable quotes

“How vastly important is it, then, for mothers to have a higher regard for their duties—to feel deeply the immense responsibilities that rest upon them! It is through their ministrations that the world grows worse or better.”
— Timothy Shay Arthur, The Mother’s Rule; or, The Right Way and the Wrong Way (1856), Preface
“I saw that God rejoiceth that He is our Father, and God rejoiceth that He is our Mother, and God rejoiceth that He is our Very Spouse and our soul is His loved Wife. And Christ rejoiceth that He is our Brother, and Jesus rejoiceth that He is our Saviour. These are five high joys, as I understand, in which He willeth that we enjoy; Him praising, Him thanking, Him loving, Him endlessly blessing.”
— Julian of Norwich, in Revelations of Divine Love (c.1393), Ch. 58
“A Kanga is Generally Regarded as One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the ordinary way, but it is well known that, if One of the Fiercer Animals is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer Animals.”
— A. A. Milne, in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
“A child should behave with modesty toward his mother.”
— Sumerian proverb from Urim, Text online at , .
“Wives haven't enough to do today. Scientific mass production has made their tasks so easy that they are overburdened with time. They utilize this time in destroying the happiness of their children.”
— John B. Watson as quoted in Buckley, K.W. (1989). Mechanical Man: John Broadus Watson and the Beginnings of Behaviorism. New York: The Guilford Press. p.162
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Volume II, Chapter XII.

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