Anna Marie Jarvis is known as the founder of the Mother’s Day holiday in the United States of America. She started working on getting the holiday recognized in 1907, and succeeded in 1914. However, by the 1920s, she realized that the holiday had become commercialized. She spent her family inheritance campaigning against the holiday that she had helped to establish. She ended up dying in poverty.
Why did she turn against the holiday? Because people started sending their mothers a printed greeting card. As she said,
A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother—and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment.
—Anna Jarvis
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