Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all… — Gloria Furman Copy Share Image
I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off… — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
“If you want to help better inspire our world...go out and empower the lives of children. If you want to inspire your… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love… — Ashlee Willis Copy Share Image
The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
“We place such demands on our partners, and become so unreasonable around them, because we have faith that someone who understands obscure… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The problem is always being the children’s mommy, or the minister’s wife and never being myself.” — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Childrens librarians are… — John Green Copy Share Image
If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“She could sense the fear and anxiety of babies and younger children upon meeting her for the first time; their wide eyed… — Coco Mingolelli Copy Share Image
“Torquelike, fear encircled her throat with its dull constant pressure.... ...give the newborn child fresh from his own salt sea a look… — Marly Youmans Copy Share Image
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went. — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart.… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
“Even after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents and siblings. Young marrieds look upon their in-laws… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“hormone given to you in pregnancy, one that is designed to keep you from yelling at your children because you are so… — Rachel Devenish Ford Copy Share Image
“if you want to understand your child better then see through the child's eye.” — Revathi Sankaran Copy Share Image
I've got children and it's still this one thing that I feel incredibly proud about, when my children are in the playground… — Clive Standen Copy Share Image
“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
It's unfiltered conversation and I love it. I also like to argue with children, so it's the perfect platform for me. — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to… — Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah Copy Share Image
“All people are children when they sleep. There’s no war in them then . . . They . . . open their… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
My first child is going to be the oldest sibling to the next kid, and that may change with each and every… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
“... I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
“Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
It's a big shame that when you have a platform to write about Save the Children, the media interest lies with my… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image