“I could no more pretend I didn't have a mother than the sea could pretend it had no salt. My mother existed… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the… — Moon Unit Zappa Copy Share Image
I love it when mothers get so mad they can't remember your name. "Come here, Roy, er, Rupert, er, Rutabaga... what is… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Mothers, I believe, intoxicate us. We idolize them and take them for granted. We hate them and blame them and exalt them… — Megan Mayhew Bergman Copy Share Image
I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
In countries where breast-feeding has stopped, more smoking will automatically be there. That's why the West smokes more than the East -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I wanted to give him what I never had. What my father took away when he decided I wasn't worth it. What… — Melissa Perea Copy Share Image
If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“For years I’d been awaiting that overriding urge I’d always heard about, the narcotic pining that draws childless women ineluctably to strangers’… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me… — Heidi Murkoff Copy Share Image
“Mother, of course, takes a lot of exercise, walks and so on. And every morning she puts on a pair of black… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a Child of Faith. Then she came to… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
“Mothers are odd things. We're quick to think of their nurturing aspects, but there is also some sort of strange darkness there.… — Damien Echols Copy Share Image
“Home, home-a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
'Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you' (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the… — Olympia Dukakis Copy Share Image
Because the state I was in, contesting elections with Azam Khan, as a woman, with acid attack threats, threat to my life...… — Jaya Prada Copy Share Image
“My mother doesn't notice, lives inside, double-glazed, while outside everything is dying for our pleasure: the wheat, the birds, the lambs-- and… — Joanna Walsh Copy Share Image
The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
My mother died of ovarian cancer; I support organizations that raise awareness of this silent killer. Women's shelters - Jenesse Center in… — Regina Taylor Copy Share Image
Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Take a company like GM. For years, people were warning its execs that the company was too dependent on big SUVs and… — Dan Heath Copy Share Image
My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood?… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Siddhant has received a perfect upbringing from his mother and it's up to me now to continue on the same track. But… — Rahul Dev Copy Share Image
...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
