The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
“Birth is experiential. You have to experience it to fully know it. An exercise such as Bellydance for birth embraced during pregnancy… — Maha Al Musa Copy Share Image
“May we do it again? She sounds remarkably bright and cheerful. 'And I didn't bleed. My mother said I would experience great… — Janet Mullany Copy Share Image
For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If you are female, and conditions are otherwise apt, you are supposed to decide whether you want to become a mother by… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
“Luckily for the people she helped, my mother was gloriously inconsistent. She lived according to the more enlightened parts of the Bible… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
When we heal ourselves, others are healed. When we nurture our dreams, we give birth to the dreams of humankind. When we… — Jamie Sams Copy Share Image
My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
When a mother feels cold, she asks the child to wear a sweater. Our concept of poverty is that way. When we… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“I wonder if there's a difference between being a dutiful mother and being a good mother.' There is,' I said, and Charlotte… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Mother, I am ravenous. Mother it is not what they said, they did not tell us the truth, they did not even… — Azra Tabassum Copy Share Image
Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
I didn't know my mother was an actress until I was eight and she went back to work. At an even younger… — Ruth Bradley Copy Share Image
Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
A mother's love is everything, Jared. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being.… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
“Disgusted, Addolgar faced Ailean. “You bet against your own son?” “Just like you, the boy doesn’t pay attention. And seeing that she’s… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
“And that is where I have failed you, Ari. You see, I would have crawled to your mother a million times. I… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“Your mother is holding your hand too tightly. You whimper and cling to her dress, because you know what will happen next.… — Kate Rhodes Copy Share Image
I totally support women working on their relationships, their careers, or whatever they need to do to be healthy moms, but it's… — Constance Marie Copy Share Image
~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I never heard my father was telling my mother that I love you. But in the movie man tells woman I love… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
For breakfast, I usually have a slice of bread with some homemade jam made from fruit from the garden; the type of… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
“Do not trade your birthright as a mother for some bauble of passing value. Let your first interest be in your home.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Ah, even sitting here on my front porch, looking out over the fields, there's a part of me aches to see him… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
“She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I'm having to learn to get the balance right, because if you want a full-time career, and you also want to be… — Trinny Woodall Copy Share Image
Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
