“Raise your kids and grand-kids not as strong men or strong women, not as good Christians, Jews, or Muslims, not as responsible… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A lot of women wrote to me. Some wrote me long letters on the meaning of the circle and about mythology and… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“Becoming a mother had been many things--often indescribably rewarding, occasionally stupefying, sometimes even terrifying in the intensity of the love she felt… — Jessica Strawser Copy Share Image
“scary mommy confession #80920 " I invited you into my home as a guest. And you brought my two year old permanent… — jill smokler Copy Share Image
Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
O son, thou hast not true humility, The highest virtue, mother of them all; But her thou hast not know; for what… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I have four daughters, the eldest is 19, the youngest is 12, and I watched all of them journey into motherhood. Motherhood… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the… — William Lawson 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
“Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“You and I. Hand in hand. An endless story of love. A love that grew in me for 9 months and only… — Veronika Jensen Copy Share Image
“Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children.… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“We all kind of hate each other in this minute, me most of all because I taught them the word bitch and… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“By the Lady’s never-sucked teats!” “Elas Sil!” “Oh shut up! I’m a woman, I can curse about things like that. Wait, it’s… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they… — Jessie Bernard Copy Share Image
Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on… — Kajol Copy Share Image
“Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all… — Gloria Furman Copy Share Image
I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add… — Heather King Copy Share Image
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
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
I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson 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
I love being a mom and having two kids. But I've had two C-sections, and I have suffered enough. That's my favourite… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
All mothers...single or married and all Fathers this is definitely a great quote and makes you think about making sure that your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention… — Mary Leakey 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
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
“I respond to many names. Sometimes I am different people. Sometimes I am the me that howls in the night. Sometimes I… — Jessica Bates 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
Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
“I want to check into a hotel for the night, order room service, and eat French fries while watching reality TV until… — Lila Monroe Copy Share Image
People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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