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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
“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
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
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
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 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
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“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
