Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day,' Hal once told… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
As a child growing up in Ireland, you would have to go to Dublin if you wanted to go to the luxury… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
“Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born,… — Brett Kiellerop-Morris Copy Share Image
Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“I think you can’t possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them. I think the Speaker loved Father. Marcão, I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Women especially are often asked to choose between being a mother and being a leader. Without adequate policy support, too many women… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child… Leave his sensibilities, his emotions,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a mom back when I was still just figuring out word problems in math class. I… — Michelle Buteau Copy Share Image
Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of… — Woody Allen 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
“Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“You have done well, Katie,” Frau Gerlach said. “You would make a fine midwife someday, if you ever wished to learn.” I… — Laura Bickle Copy Share Image
A group of women who valued motherhood, but valued it on their own timetable, began to make a new claim, one that… — Kristin Luker Copy Share Image
That's sort of part of the American ethic - is not to worry too much about the past and that it shouldn't… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“It’s impossible for us to love another person in the same way as we love ourselves. There is nothing more tragic than… — Pajtim Statovci Copy Share Image
I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
With my mother, Julie Andrews Edwards, I've authored such children's books as the 'Dumpy the Dump Truck' series, 'Dragon: Hound of Honor,'… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Damn, she's good." "Of course she blodd is," Pearl murmured, her ace still stuffed against Jack's neck, even though she sounded like… — Scarlett Dawn Copy Share Image
I have very vivid memories of being a young child. My mother would create dinner as for us, and when she would… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
The woman is more intelligent when it comes to the children, when it comes to her role and responsibility as a mother… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I heard that someone asked Mother Teresa what was most important in her work. I thought she'd say the Rosary but she… — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the… — Allison Tolman Copy Share Image
On how he met Wayne Gretzky: I was in L.A. preparing for Indian Wells, and a mutual friend asked if I'd like… — Milos Raonic Copy Share Image
See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“His father is out cutting wood, so he goes to his mother. 'Mother, I must away and see the world, or I… — Ruth Manning-Sanders Copy Share Image
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I can't say that it's something I planned on doing right now, but now that's it's in my lap and it's something… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
I've always wanted, notionally, to be a mother. And I was certain I would be, because everyone I know, gay or straight,… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
I think what women are doing to themselves is that they're seeing these different images of perfection - the perfect wife, the… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
