The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. — Joan Blades Copy Share Image
Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different. — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Til marriage and motherhood happened, I was devoted to my work. I didn't see anything beyond it. — Sridevi Copy Share Image
This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Whatever life brings, we'll share," she says, and "I can do no more than the best I can.” — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
How can feminism be pro-women without being pro-motherhood? There is nothing more unique about being a woman. — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
I think birth and motherhood are not things that you're trained to do. You might have a good example in your own… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Yes, I am his mother—I can say that now—for only after I released myself from my own expectations of motherhood did I… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood .… — Wilma Scott Heide Copy Share Image
There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
“A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at… — Gloria Ng Copy Share Image
“In the dawn of my youth, my mother's gentle wake-up calls were met with defiant protests, a rebellion against the inevitable start… — Waleed Tahir Copy Share Image
Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
“Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the… — Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
For me, having a baby was never going to be timed randomly. I wanted to have mine while I was on 'Scandal.'… — Katie Lowes Copy Share Image
“I wrote about the rush of love, the changing of a woman into a mother—a process that happened without conscious thought, as… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a… — Ashton Shepherd Copy Share Image
In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at.… — Virginie Despentes Copy Share Image
“Oh, that boy is in so much trouble.' Exie screeches out of the parking lot as if Jerran can hear her.” — Jennifer Loren Copy Share Image
My mum took nine beautiful month to make my heart, so why would I even let a guy come from nowhere and… — J-Young Copy Share Image
There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Motherhood brought me even closer to my own mother - I realised everything she'd been through. — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“A mother's love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends.” — Kelly DeBie Copy Share Image
“You will be a mother to many, for true motherhood lies in the heart, not the womb.” — Jordanna Max Brodsky Copy Share Image
“That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of motherhood. I think that is where our real strength is. =) — Jackie Copy Share Image
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it? — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish” — Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett Copy Share Image
“It is within your loving and welcoming arms that a new generation will arrive & be greeted.” — Eleesha Copy Share Image
“I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
