“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Motherhood's a gift denied to so many women who are so deserving of babies, so whenever I feel like I need a… — Gemma Atkinson Copy Share Image
“We can have romance, love, sex, respect, self-respect, and fulfilling employment in whatever interests us, if we like. Motherhood doesn’t need to… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
Motherhood is heroism. It is God-given, and yet men treat women as though of similar common clay, when in fact they are… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods-except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never… — Jessica Biel Copy Share Image
Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
“It also seems honorable that another woman would value motherhood over all my priorities. But I do not believe that I am… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
“If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life;… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Our culture sends some amazingly contradictory messages about what an ideal mother is like. Mothers try to live up to these ideals… — Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D Copy Share Image
We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“For the most part, each day listed a different rendition of "Justin ate well" and "Justin took a great nap". Every now… — Pattie Mallette Copy Share Image
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
[After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the… — Sonya Renee Taylor Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege.… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I'll keep smiling..knowing I'll see you soon. I miss you. I love you more than I could love anything. ..Why'd you leave… — Bailey Heideman Copy Share Image
Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“I'd just done the most important thing a person can ever do. I'd made life. At the very instant he was put… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in… — Marcia Muller Copy Share Image
I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Because there is less female storytelling, especially motherhood storytelling, there has been immense pressure on my storytelling to represent more people, and… — Catherine Reitman Copy Share Image
Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
When I first watched 'Little Mom,' I was really struck by the universal things it said about motherhood. You could tell these… — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit,… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
“...it was hard to be a mother when you had never been mothered yourself. Your children's needs remind you of your needs.… — Sarah Dunn Copy Share Image
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
After I had my daughter, I kind of got comfortable with motherhood and had time to focus on something else then I… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
“On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight into the kitchen,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“I'm just saying, when a woman in a maiden, she's in the spotlight. Everybody cares what a pretty, young girl does and… — Rufi Thorpe Copy Share Image
“More than economic dependency of the wife and children on the husband and father is needed to preserve the institution of the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
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![“[After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You can't be afraid of, 'Oh, I'm out of the public, then I'm going to have to make a comeback.' It's ridiculous. No.” quote by Jennifer Lopez](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a09/jennifer-lopez-1227_birth_after-the-twins-birth-i-spent-two-years_1843713.jpg)
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