Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“In 'The Female Eunuch' I argued that motherhood should not be treated as a substitute career; now I would argue that motherhood… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Ah, selfish. There’s that word again.” Sherry smirked. “It’s been hurled at me many a time, because being a mother and wife… — Andrea Lochen Copy Share Image
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“Close your eyes and stare into the dark. My father's advice when I couldn't sleep as a little girl. He wouldn't want… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school,… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
“On one occasion Jimmy is said to have given the elderly, impoverished mother of a young hood five thousand dollars. The woman’s… — Nicholas Pileggi Copy Share Image
“He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
“For that entire journey across the rough terrain of Afghanistan, I never stopped praying that everything of the world could be peaceful,… — Najwa bin Laden Copy Share Image
“Mom is my best friend not because she is my mom, but because- She is the one who understand me without my… — Debolina Bhawal Copy Share Image
It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Yes, it’s unfortunate that we have been conditioned to see an alternative to motherhood as not normal. But you do all realise… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Fear not, the time is coming Fear not, your bones are strong Fear not, help is nearby Fear not, Gula is near… — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
“According to Crittenden, young women today are deeply unhappy and confused because they ignored the siren song of the new momism and… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“Her time has come," answered Miss Lizzie. "That's why I didn't marry Harvey - long ago when he asked me. I was… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“On first hearing that little voice – as fine and friable, I felt, as cotton thread, the impact on my soul was… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
“The Mommy Mystique tells us that we are the luckiest women in the world -- the freest, with the most choices, the… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take… — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
“I remember at that time I went to the hairdresser's. I did this regularly, but I remember that visit for two particular… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to exaggerate the adverse influence of the precepts and practices of religion upon the status and happiness of woman.… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
“Mother seemed happiest when making and tending home, the sewing machine whistling and the Mixmaster whirling. Her deepest impulse was to nurture,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“When you're a passenger on an airplane, you are told that in the event of a change in cabin pressure, you should… — Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D Copy Share Image
“Girls mature faster than boys, cost more to raise, and statistics show that the old saw about girls not knowing about money… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mary’s new motherhood is not some vague or abstract sort of thing. It’s concrete and personal. And even though it’s universal, it’s… — MIC Michael E. Gaitley Copy Share Image
Oh, for that remarkable and complex economy of motherhood. Those back and forth generosities-where one day a mom ferries the kids to… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
“You Might Not Be A Wife Material, Neither Might You Be Worth Mothering Anyone's Child, According To PEOPLE. You Are However ENOUGH… — Nomthandazo Tsembeni Copy Share Image
“For too many women in America are becoming sick with exhaustion and stress as they try to do things that can't be… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
“The Mother of God is asked to 'pray zealously to her Son and her God,' and the words of the psalm are… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“And before that, I had been Charles’s wife, the bereaved mother of the slain child. That was all. But before that, I… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
![“It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in Nashville, my son was screaming with a terrible stomachache. I was like, 'I have to get out of here!' but we had to finish. My friend Jenno, a mother of three who was…” quote by Gwyneth Paltrow](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/982/gwyneth-paltrow-1230_gas_it-s-really-hard-to-find-things-that-are_1389464.jpg)
