Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I think that, being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain,… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
To me, being an actor is the best job in the land, next to being a mother and having a family and… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
But I think half the battle is figuring out what works for you, and I am much better at being a mother… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about… — Shelley Long Copy Share Image
I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work. — Kirsty Gallacher Copy Share Image
There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I'm dedicating my time to going on tour and basically juggling music, modeling, and being a mother. Being a mother is obviously… — Karen Elson Copy Share Image
To mothers who are raising their children without a father in the home, I promise you that as you speak of Jesus… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Acting is my calling. It is one of the things I was meant to do in this world, along with being a… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother's love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Being a mother is the perfect experience for any writer. You learn how to not waste time. The writing hours become incredibly… — Chiara Barzini Copy Share Image
Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
