Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature,… — Barbara Windsor Copy Share Image
Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother -… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
I have connected with my family more because I have made a group in which I have added all my family members… — Sara Khan Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
No-one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really maternal... I worry that because I've always wanted kids so much,… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal… — Samantha Fox Copy Share Image
...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal. — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Yes, she really would dump ice water on me. What a loving maternal figure. I” — Tasha Gwartney Copy Share Image
The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just always idolized maternal figures - how they carry themselves, how they take care of people. I've always loved the diva… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as maternal "instinct": the word does not in any case apply to the human species. The mother's… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is just that she learnt the value of the maternal cliché, the love that is always the same no matter… — Elly Griffiths Copy Share Image
Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife. — Anne, Princess Royal Copy Share Image
Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Intellectually, Stephen was a towering giant. Bodily, he was as helpless as a newborn. The functions I fulfilled were all maternal rather… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I think a beautiful quality that's a biological, hormonal imperative for women, whether they have children or not, is that we're built… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions.… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers… — Agnetha Faltskog Copy Share Image