“Maybe midlife isn’t the crisis we joke about. Maybe it’s the moment you finally stop waiting—for permission, for perfection, for the "right"… — Bree Penfold Copy Share Image
I lived with my maternal grandparents, so I rarely saw my mother during the day; at one time she had three different… — Joao Cancelo Copy Share Image
“Women aren't so keen to have them anymore, not where I come from, anyway. They've got other fish to fry, which is… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I have an odd relationship with motherhood. I've never had that relationship of this unconditional friendship, deep bond that you have with… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like,… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have… — Angelina Jolie 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
I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“You know you're a mom when you open the door to the dishwasher mid-cycle and think, 'This is the closest I'm going… — Judy Gruen Copy Share Image
“I find it appalling that the Church claims Mary consented at the age of thirteen to become the mother of God.” “But… — Janet M. Tavakoli 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
Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
“It portrayed motherhood as the highest position that a woman could achieve. For God had made Mary neither a prophet nor the… — Jeffry R. Halverson Copy Share Image
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“On paper, I had the life I’d had in mind when I deferred motherhood—comfortable salary, fancy business card, cross-country moves, dates with… — Kassi Underwood Copy Share Image
“At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
New mothers should enjoy every phase of motherhood without caring about the world. Weight can be checked and controlled. Don't lose your… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?” asked a gray female pup. “Are you cag mag [crazy]?… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
“That's when it hit me; my sunglasses were buried in the grave where my Talal lay. Yes, my sunglasses were buried with… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers… — Agnetha Faltskog Copy Share Image
There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half,… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my… — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
“Confession: Having kids did not fix me. I was not somehow more whole, less botched-up, or more certain just because I had… — Jerusalem Jackson Greer 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
First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I… — Tea Leoni Copy Share Image
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