Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success. — Marie Pitt Copy Share Image
“Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be.” — Eleesha Copy Share Image
“They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?' I am made of memories. 'Speak, then.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
“Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying motherhood lacks meaning. There's great dignity in the smallness of motherhood; we're essential in our… — Lydia Minatoya Copy Share Image
Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“Leadership without service is like trying to breathe without oxygen.” — H.L. Balcomb Copy Share Image
“While motherhood is an incredible vocation, it has no more inherent worth than a childless woman simply being who she is, to… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I also feel like motherhood, especially, is seen usually in movies with this saintly veil over it. There's something about tipping that… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
“Fatigue is an excellent gauge of well-being because it is a very hard symptom to mask. The only way to get rid… — Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D Copy Share Image
Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
“When you're a passenger on an airplane, you are told that in the event of a change in cabin pressure, you should… — Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D Copy Share Image
