“My mother once said that the planet was like an enormous womb, and every single one of us was a fetus. Death… — Robin Roe Copy Share Image
“To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life. Your questions were answered,… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
“I had hoped to make her strong and healthy, and now she may be too weak herself after this slow death, like… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
My mother's incredibly independent and she brought us up to be the same. She had five daughters and two sons and only… — Laila Rouass Copy Share Image
Only a war that serves no conceivable national interest gets the New York Time's endorsement. Liberals warm to the idea of American… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were… — Connie Britton Copy Share Image
“She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good… — Dorothy Moore Copy Share Image
“She is still a bundle of engaging possibilities rather than a finished picture. Of the mother there is nothing to say, for… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering… — David Walker Copy Share Image
My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees,… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I hang out with my dad mostly, my dad was in the military. He's at that age now where his war stories… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
All of my friends went to college, and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however.… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
My Virgen de Guadalupe is not the mother of God. She is God. She is a face for a god without a… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“In this precarious climate of employment, achieving basic health and safety standards in the workplace is hard enough; to ask for maternity… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Don’t make this about me,” Laura hissed. “You obviously don’t want me here.” “I’m making it about me,” Cath said. “It’s not… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Acting is something that we all practice at some time in our lives. We're different people to our mothers, fathers, our friends,… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
I think my confidence and competitiveness - that will - comes from my mother. I always knew my mom loved me, and… — J. J. Redick Copy Share Image
In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
HAVING none of them is a really serious matter that I ever faced. So jealous about the others who have one but… — Mariel Atos Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
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