Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“Yes, she really would dump ice water on me. What a loving maternal figure. I” — Tasha Gwartney Copy Share Image
Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood. — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet — Karrie Webb Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is just that she learnt the value of the maternal cliché, the love that is always the same no matter… — Elly Griffiths Copy Share Image
Mum is withdrawn and very shy. I don't see her as a friend, like I do my dad. He's active and bouncy.… — Chloe Madeley Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as maternal "instinct": the word does not in any case apply to the human species. The mother's… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife. — Anne, Princess Royal Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, it occurred to me that my feelings towards the little man were distinctly maternal. Good God, I thought, how utterly revolting,… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken nights and nappy changes holds… — Kiki Dee Copy Share Image
My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
“--what's really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it's a… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
I think a beautiful quality that's a biological, hormonal imperative for women, whether they have children or not, is that we're built… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother -… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions.… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me. — Malaika Arora Khan Copy Share Image
I take on everybody's problems. I have a very maternal side. I'm basically a very normal, down-to-earth person. — Shannen Doherty Copy Share Image
Intellectually, Stephen was a towering giant. Bodily, he was as helpless as a newborn. The functions I fulfilled were all maternal rather… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India,… — Jack Davenport Copy Share Image
I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature,… — Barbara Windsor Copy Share Image
I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I have connected with my family more because I have made a group in which I have added all my family members… — Sara Khan Copy Share Image
People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
