We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
“Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?" — Yip Harburg 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
Borrow a child and get on welfare. Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child, or go… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
it used to be almost the first question (just after 'Can you type?') in the standard female job interview: 'Are you now,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“I sighed and deleted the message, imagining the dirty clothes multiplying like rabbits, because that’s what they do when I’m not around.” — Alex Owens Copy Share Image
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood… — Evelyn Nakano Glenn Copy Share Image
“A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A Mother's dream is to raise up a child who will grow up and be a blessing to the entire world. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Everything good about me, came from my mom. If I can be half the mother that she is, I will consider Motherhood… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. There is nothing else in life except motherhood that costs so… — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Copy Share Image
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are the great vacationless class” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. — Joan Blades Copy Share Image
“Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
