If TV & Movie Mothers Were Churches

Beverly Goldberg as a Mother-Warrior Church

This is my mom Beverly Goldberg a shoulder-padded crunchy-haired mother warrior whose top priority was always her kids.

When I'm with her, I'm reminded of the virtues of the English, but isn't she American?

Exactly. If you want to turn your backs on God and spend eternity doing laps in a lake of fire. Well, that's your choice.

Wrong wrong. He doesn't even love you. Come on.

Buddy picture it Sicily 1912.

The Church as Mother, Neck, and Disciplinarian

The man is the head but the woman is the neck and she can turn the head anyway, she wants a mother is all things.

Cook dressmaker. Disciplinarian. I need you to intervene. I'm starting to worry. You're not even capable of saying something nice about me in your speech Lindsay. Saying nice things about you is easy.

The hard part is not sounding sarcastic.

Female Leadership, Destiny, and Practical Wisdom

Look, there are times when men want a place of their own. I still say that girls have a right to anything that boys have. I Didn't know it. But I was destined to be your mama.

We can change it Kyle. We have to at least try. There's no fate, but what we make for ourselves.

Did you tell her to scrub the walls down with disinfectant? That's what you should have told her to do. Did you tell her to do that? No, I didn't see now. That's what I'm talking about. You told the child to use a mask.

A mask. What is that gonna do. A mask that just goes to show you you don't know anything about sick people.

Not a Trophy Wife

I have a mind of my own, you know, I can contribute. I'm not just some trophy wife.

You're a trophy wife. What contest in hell did I win.