We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“The next time she visits her father she’ll speak to him in English. Were her mother ever to stand before her, even… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“I was prissy as a child. No dirt under these fingernails.” “You were prissy? I don’t believe it.” “If you knew my… — Kristin Rae Copy Share Image
My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working.… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
That weird dark energy - when I was a kid, I didn't know what it was. I just had to 'thrash it… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Sometimes, having a mom stay home is a big help. On the other hand, when a mother works outside the home, her… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service,… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
When I ask the young people from California why they want to go to New York, and the ones from the East… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I become an… — James Hong Copy Share Image
Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months,… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
“Rosie was also used to conflicting emotions, for she was a mother and knew every moment of every day that no one… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
I just want my child to have security and being looked after by me, by my other half, by my mother and… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and her white walls… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“They say, that when I was born, my mother taught me to suck the milk. And every night beside my crib, she… — Iraj Mirza Persian Poet Copy Share Image
In December of 1990, just before my eighth birthday, I left China for the United States. My father was a political dissident,… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother… — Joie Lee Copy Share Image
To be good Christians you have to contemplate the suffering humanity of Jesus. "How can we bear witness? Contemplate Jesus. How can… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred… — Marilou Awiakta Copy Share Image
Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
When I was forty, I was getting divorced, living in a low-class, dirty hotel in New York. My mother was dying of… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
“Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother's account; and it was happy for her that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
I have very strong Canadian connections. My daughter was born there a year and half ago. But because of the nature of… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
My mother told me when I was a kid that each time we get to what feels like the edge of a… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
“Yeah, the majority head out after three or four meetings. They get pregnant again, mostly, or tire of grieving and just move… — Deanna Roy Copy Share Image
Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So...if [a cesarean] doesn't happen,… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, but… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image