Sentence examples for mothers generation from inspiring English sources

We're not our mothers' generation at 60".

We roll our eyes and block our ears to our mothers' generation because, ultimately, we believe we are better.

Although they have few role models from their mothers' generation, women like her today overwhelmingly say they want real careers.

Those born in 1969 and who turned 45 last year had fewer children, 1.91, compared to an average of 2.29 children for their mothers' generation.

These children, for whom Madonna is somebody else's mother, think the getups in the storefront windows are no more threatening than Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman power costume was in their mothers' generation.

Set in both Ireland and the United States, and told in both first and third person, they have in common determined young -- or youngish -- women, united by a brave but good-humored rejection of the fates of their mothers' generation: lives of drudgery and servitude in embittered, stultifying marriages.

They are as large or larger in number, better-educated, ambitious, optimistic and determined to enjoy a more well-rounded life than their mothers' generations, according to polls from The Washington Post and Pew Research Center.

Like baby ducks imprinting on their mother, generations come of age and make attachments to things around them — a certain music, particular foods, a set of role models.

Commissioned to mark the 35th anniversary of Working Mother magazine, Mothers and Daughters: The Working Mother Generations Report, sponsored by SC Johnson, found the biggest attitude gaps between Millennials and their parents, the Baby Boomers.

James A. Nass, a company spokesman, sounded eerily like a Castoria ad himself when he said, "The formula is the same one trusted by mothers for generations and generations".

In the mothers of generation II, the average degree of methylation was 73%, and in their children, the average degree of methylation was 81%.