Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Because there is less female storytelling, especially motherhood storytelling, there has been immense pressure on my storytelling to represent more people, and… — Catherine Reitman Copy Share Image
But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit,… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
When I first watched 'Little Mom,' I was really struck by the universal things it said about motherhood. You could tell these… — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
“...it was hard to be a mother when you had never been mothered yourself. Your children's needs remind you of your needs.… — Sarah Dunn Copy Share Image
It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
“New mothers enter the world of parenting feeling much like Alice in Wonderland. - Being a mother is one of the most… — Debra Gilbert Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“These women have what [Emma] Goldman calls “external emancipation” - they have the job, the home, and the child. But larger forces… — Rosanna Hertz Copy Share Image
“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an independent business creator. In… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“The Mother Of God The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Through the hollow of an ear; Wings beating about the… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Things that remind me of Mother are these: the truth ‘mid deception, a warm summer breeze, the calm within chaos, a stitch… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“motherhood is not a job at all. It is a full-time, all-consuming, life-subsuming career with no pay, no stock options, no social… — Andrea J. Buchanan 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
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really… — Natalie Merchant 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
I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege.… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the… — Sonya Renee Taylor Copy Share Image
“I'd just done the most important thing a person can ever do. I'd made life. At the very instant he was put… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I'll keep smiling..knowing I'll see you soon. I miss you. I love you more than I could love anything. ..Why'd you leave… — Bailey Heideman Copy Share Image
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
“...after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a lifetime commitment. With its many twists and turns,and ups and downs, mothers have the inherent ability to ride the… — Heather James Copy Share Image
“Work and money are not luxuries, and your children benefit in countless ways by having a proud, successful, financially comfortable mother. Go… — Emma Johnson Copy Share Image
“Recognize that the joy of motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times. But amid the challenges, there… — Standard Works LLC Copy Share Image
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The question of motherhood for me is never just between me and a baby, or me and a man. There's always another… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
“In most families, care-giving becomes the woman's responsibility. While care-giving can enrich you, it can also deplete you if you don't have… — Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D Copy Share Image
“Any man who discourages a mom from breastfeeding their newborn baby is probably abusive to the said woman and would later channel… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
![“These women have what [Emma] Goldman calls “external emancipation” - they have the job, the home, and the child. But larger forces premised on a particular type of job structure, home life, and mothering trap them in their emancipation. Essentially, these new opportunities for women do not form a…” quote by Rosanna Hertz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18f/rosanna-hertz-274494_children_these-women-have-what-emma-goldman-calls_3224312.jpg)
![“[After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You can't be afraid of, 'Oh, I'm out of the public, then I'm going to have to make a comeback.' It's ridiculous. No.” quote by Jennifer Lopez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/jennifer-lopez-1227_birth_after-the-twins-birth-i-spent-two-years_1843713.jpg)
