Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational… — Joan Raphael-Leff Copy Share Image
Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
[My mother ] will write me an email, and it'll be Shanah Tovah. And the next day it'll be something else, Baruch… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
My mother was a spiritualist. We had weekly séances at our house with a neighbor who was a medium and various friends,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Occasionally, you may have the confusing case of a mother who appears to be in active labor, with contractions coming every five… — Elizabeth Davis Copy Share Image
As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coming from a single parent household, I witnessed firsthand the strength and courage of the single mother. I always had my father… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
“On the day Contessa Carolina Fantoni was married, only one other living person knew that she was going blind, and he was… — Carey Wallace Copy Share Image
The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
As I look in to my daughters eyes I can see the future of my succes the things I want to be… — Isreal Soria Copy Share Image
“In my teens and early twenties, I often went clothes shopping with my mother and I could always see her dismay at… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I want to set the example my mother set for me: a strong female role model who faces challenges takes risks and… — Mireya Mayor Copy Share Image
“...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happiness: what is… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Being able to inspire my kid with what I'm doing now, it's going to help him succeed in the future, and that's… — Jessica McDonald Copy Share Image
I had several moms who knew and didn't bring gifts for the baby and instead brought me food, candles, journals - the… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother's sorority,… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
My parents had the plan for my life from the moment my mother tested positive with me. Looking back now, I'd say… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
“When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But this woman was all mother. A stern one, perhaps, and autocratic at times, and somewhat hard--but after all and in spite… — Nancy Byrd Turner Copy Share Image
My mother always told me that came first. I started modeling in 11th grade and it was something that I did after… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
“Raisin in our only outlier for now: her mother is white, she lives in a white neighbourhood, she eats white food, she… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“For many years I was the principal companion of my mother. She was a beautiful, talented, morbid person. I think she was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“And what will you call her, then?” Nancy asked the new mother. “Abigail,” Naomi said. “We will call her Abigail.” “Ah,” Nancy… — Melanie Schmidt Copy Share Image
“What could I possibly have done to bring this on? What can I possibly do to stop it? I thought, is there… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image