Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Women Ain't Hood Ornament (The Sonnet) Why should women have to give up, Their name when they get married, As if they… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Something is missing, and it's something not so easy to name as semiabsent husbands, not so easy to point to as a… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“A pair of young mothers now became the centre of interest. They had risen from their lying-in much sooner than the doctors… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your feet with my tears, For I know… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“When tadpole was born, I spent a sleepless night on the maternity ward gazing intently into her inky, newborn eyes, grappling to… — Catherine Sanderson Copy Share Image
Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“If you want to know what's in motherhood for you, as a woman, then - in truth - it's nothing you couldn't… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“in 3000 b.c…in spain, france, the british isles and old europe, the lives of people centered on nature and motherhood. they honored… — Marie F. Mongan Copy Share Image
I believe that a woman should always remain a woman and nothing feminine should be alien to her. At the same time,… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
“Near the end of Love's Labor , Eva Feder Kittay (1999, 154) writes that a fundamental aspect of a just society is… — Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio Copy Share Image
“This is the book, then, and the book of Shakespeare. And every day you must read a page of each to your… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“There's no way around it. Motherhood is hard. And you young moms put more pressure on yourselves than we ever did, with… — Bunmi Laditan Copy Share Image
As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
I have four daughters, the eldest is 19, the youngest is 12, and I watched all of them journey into motherhood. Motherhood… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
The Middletons and the Windsors might seem at first glance to be worlds apart. Kate certainly shows no sign of adopting the… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“You know that euphemism, she’s expecting? It’s apt. The birth of a baby, so long as it’s healthy, is something to look… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I'm getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours… — Joan Reardon Copy Share Image
“When I wasn’t in the barn garden, helping out, sorting seeds or checking hoses I’d spend time alone, usually in the bathroom… — Michael Poeltl Copy Share Image
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“New mothers enter the world of parenting feeling much like Alice in Wonderland. - Being a mother is one of the most… — Debra Gilbert Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“These women have what [Emma] Goldman calls “external emancipation” - they have the job, the home, and the child. But larger forces… — Rosanna Hertz Copy Share Image
The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions.… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the… — William Lawson Copy Share Image
“Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children.… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“You and I. Hand in hand. An endless story of love. A love that grew in me for 9 months and only… — Veronika Jensen Copy Share Image