“Leadership without service is like trying to breathe without oxygen.” — H.L. Balcomb Copy Share Image
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Motherhood and marriage are the best bits of my life now. Who would have thought I would be enjoying that? — Rebecca Loos Copy Share Image
“It was Serena who'd said that motherhood was much too hard and, when you got right down to it, perhaps not worth… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date.” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest… — Zazie Beetz Copy Share Image
“(Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever” — Nancy Woodruff Copy Share Image
“But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't know about changing my perspective, because motherhood is such a glorious blessing and I am very thankful for that. It… — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
At some point, it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I'm not a perfect Friend. I am not a perfect Mother. I am not a perfect Wife. I am not a perfect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred,… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Yes, I am his mother—I can say that now—for only after I released myself from my own expectations of motherhood did I… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality.… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at.… — Virginie Despentes Copy Share Image
“My heart filled with Nick's smile, with the look of sheer adoration he gave me as he lugged the bucket. In the… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“I realized, listening to the silences that fell sometimes in my interview groups, that there are things that are sayable and unsayable… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“I used to fear their deaths--the car! the dog! the sea! the germ!--until I realized it need never be a problem: on… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers,… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
“If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
![“... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred, serves to impress upon women certain tendencies, to endow them with certain virtueswhich will render them of special value in public affairs.” quote by Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5f3/mary-corinna-putnam-jacobi-437_affair_the-special-relation-of-women-to-childre_2420071.jpg)
