“There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.” — Stephanie Bishop 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
Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss, Gives and receives all bliss,-- fullest when most Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
“But for Ruth, that moment when she held Lucy in her arms was a turning point. She knew then that she would… — Elly Griffiths Copy Share Image
The excuse or toleration of cruelty upon any living creature by a woman is a deadly sin against the grandest force in… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child... There should be… — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“I've given you everything," she insisted again and again in her last days. "Yes," I agreed. She had, it was true. She… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would… — Kiran Manral Copy Share Image
“We know God by cultivating a relationship, not by understanding a concept. The relation constitutes the very subjectivity of of our existence.… — Christos Yannaras Copy Share Image
“Mickey cursed under his breath, letting his head fall back against the wall. His c*ck still beat angrily against his clothing. Once… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“If your mother lived your life as though it were her own-never allowing you a moment of stress or frustration, routinely sleeping… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
“I will feel the pang of separation when she is two, when she is twelve, when she is twenty. My daughter will… — Andrea J. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Everyone has been overjoyed with the birth of their first son, bringing celebratory sweets, new clothes for the baby, fennel tea to… — Shilpi Somaya Gowda Copy Share Image
“Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of… — Henrietta Dumont 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
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
If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
“Gabi had felt the same way. As if the universe had abruptly expanded, like opening up a map, in a way she… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
