If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Yes, it’s unfortunate that we have been conditioned to see an alternative to motherhood as not normal. But you do all realise… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions.… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I was always confident and comfortable. But motherhood is what really made me feel beautiful. — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
“She knew better than to waste that time. There isn't always someone who wants you singing to him or nibbling his ear… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway? — Sandra Scofield Copy Share Image
“One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the… — Jessica Bates Copy Share Image
“Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time… — Cindy Crawford 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
Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it. — M. L. Stedman Copy Share Image
As girls are given dollies and pushchairs while little boys are frowned upon for picking them up; while men are 'congratulated' for… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
[After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you've gained from having one. — Sunny Gupta Copy Share Image
I have insecurities about being a good mom, or balancing my career with motherhood. All of those are very strong, very real… — Charisma Carpenter Copy Share Image
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
“Sometimes being a MOM is like a good ol’ country song! You lose your sleep, you lose your hair, you lose your… — Comic Strip Mama Copy Share Image
“[The ideology of beauty] has grown strong to take over the work of social coercion that myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity, and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it. — Victoria Billings Copy Share Image
A woman's decision to carry a baby to term knowing that she will not reap the fruits of motherhood should be treated… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
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