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NDTV
10-05-2025
- General
- NDTV
Mother's Day 2025: Wishes, Quotes And Messages To Share With Your Mom
Mother's Day, as the name suggests, is a special occasion to honour mothers and maternal figures for their love, sacrifice and contributions to family and society. It's a day to acknowledge the unquantifiable and selfless contributions every mother makes to help her child succeed. Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May each year. This year, it falls on May 11. On this day, family members try to make sure that their mother is happy and enjoys her life. They surprise her with gifts, take her out for dinner, or even cook for her at home. It is the perfect opportunity to tell your mom how much she means to you. As Mother's Day is just around the corner, here are some Mother's Day wishes, greetings, quotes and messages that you can share with your mother to make her feel special: Mother's Day wishes and greetings Happy Mother's Day to the best mother in the world! Happy Mother's Day to the woman who made me who I am today. I owe everything to you! Dear mom, words can't express how much you mean to me, but I will still try. Thank you for being a guide, an inspiration, a shoulder to lean on and the rock of our family. Happy Mother's Day! Happy Mother's Day! May this year be full of good luck and great things for you, mom. We love you! Wishing you a Mother's Day that's filled with all your favourite things. You deserve endless pampering. Thank you for putting up with my childhood antics and teenage angst. It couldn't have been easy, but you did it all with a smile. Love you, mom! Mom, you're not just my mother, you're also my best friend. Thank you for your unwavering presence in my life. Happy Mother's Day! To the most amazing mom, happy Mother's Day! Your kindness, strength, and guidance have made me who I am today. I love you more than words can say. Happy Mother's Day! Your strength, patience, and unconditional love inspire me daily. Thank you for everything, Mom. Thank you for believing in me even when I didn't believe in myself. Your faith in me has been my guiding light. Happy Mother's Day! Mother's Day quotes "In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe." - NK Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms "No man is poor who has a godly mother." - Abraham Lincoln "There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster," is a quote by Sarah Josepha Hale, author of Mary Had a Little Lamb. "A mother's love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible," is a quote by Marion C Garretty.
The Guardian
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Fantasy fiction doesn't need reclaiming for women – they already write and read it
I was disappointed to read your view on romantasy fiction (Editorial, 7 February), which seemed to imply that the fantasy genre needed reclaiming for women. This does a huge disservice to the many excellent female fantasy authors – some recent, some around for decades – who have been a mainstay of the genre despite not writing romance or teen fiction. These women do not seem to get the recognition, and readership, that they deserve – despite some, such as NK Jemisin, Ann Leckie, Charlie Jane Anders, RF Kuang or Martha Wells, dominating genre awards. These authors also have to fight the continual misperception that they only write romantic or young adult fiction, which is exactly the fantasy that your article perpetuates. And this also erases all the female fantasy readers who are not (solely) here for the romantasy, and have always been here. While I am glad that romantasy has sparked more interest in fantasy fiction, made the genre more inclusive, and made fantasy publishing more lucrative (though usually for the publishers rather than most authors), perpetuating the myth that the (non-romance) genre is only for boys – and that romance is only for girls – is unfair. Sorry to have to mansplain this to you, but from what I've seen the writers themselves are too tired and appalled at having to continually wage the battle of the sexes to take up arms once more. Dragons are easier to defeat, it LatimerSwindon, Wiltshire Like most genres, romantasy is nothing new. Readers of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight (1968) and subsequent Pern novels will immediately recognise the synergy of dragons and sex. Beowulf fans will see this resurgence as a sellout, even dragon-sploitation. But times move on and the sagas once popular with the male warrior class have to make way for the commercially dominant female consumer. Perhaps it's time then to throw off the snobbery that dominates newspaper reviews, especially if editors want to attract new younger and female readers. Critics might be more widely read if they were more fully conversant with achievements in this massively popular genre. After all, the bestselling genres of the past, such as gothic novels, have made it into the canon and serious scholars are discovering literary merits that contemporaries must have WilliamsRyde, Isle of Wight Do you have a photograph you'd like to share with Guardian readers? If so, please click here to upload it. A selection will be published in our Readers' best photographs galleries and in the print edition on Saturdays.
