“Ah, selfish. There’s that word again.” Sherry smirked. “It’s been hurled at me many a time, because being a mother and wife… — Andrea Lochen Copy Share Image
“...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“The Mommy Mystique tells us that we are the luckiest women in the world -- the freest, with the most choices, the… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“At the moment of giving birth to a child, is the mother separate from the child? You should study not only that… — Dogen Zenji Copy Share Image
My whole life has been about working and being in the girl group and being on stage and being an actress, but… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
“I was lounging in the kitchen, enjoying the small fermata between emptying the dishwasher and reloading it. It's a glamorous life.” — Abbi Waxman Copy Share Image
“..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
How's motherhood? It is absolutely wonderful. Oh, my gosh. It's truly indescribable and amazing. — Jennie Finch Copy Share Image
Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it… — Christine Swanson Copy Share Image
It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“The pointlessness of motherhood. I’d spent all that time saying, ‘Look both ways’, ‘Don’t go off with anyone’ and ‘Here’s a Haliborange… — Kerry Fisher Copy Share Image
I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding is a beautiful thing, one of the most beautiful things that exist in nature. Think about how a woman can literally… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
If you are a mother then you know the feeling of true love. Once you look into the eyes of your children… — Mandi Nowak Copy Share Image
“She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~” — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids… — Jody Watley Copy Share Image
“The gift of sustenance is crucial to motherhood: the mother providing milk for her newborn from her own body, created from her… — Lisa E. Dahill Copy Share Image
“As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent.… — Elizabeth Peters 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
