When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
My greatest wish is that my children will always know how much I love them, and that they walk the rest of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Maybe she’d always wished to be beautiful and didn’t quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn’t say she was… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Becoming a parent is signing up to live your life constantly terrified. Half the time you're terrified something is going to happen… — Kirsten Millingar Copy Share Image
I just always idolized maternal figures - how they carry themselves, how they take care of people. I've always loved the diva… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Admitting that this job isn’t always easy doesn’t make somebody a bad mother. At least, it shouldn’t. We’re all on this ride… — Jill Smokler 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
Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
“Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing- reading stories about cabooses… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“We’re more than borrowed titles, more than shadows wearing rings – we are roots of all survival, we are breath in everything.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs -… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Women especially are often asked to choose between being a mother and being a leader. Without adequate policy support, too many women… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
“This is one of the weird things about motherhood. You can predict that some of your best moments will happen around the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“[On visitors after having a new baby...] "Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets… — Claudine Wolk Copy Share Image
“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
“Fatigue is epidemic among women in general, and mothers in particular. Mothers talk about sleep the way someone who is starving talks… — Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D Copy Share Image
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Motherhood has been a wonderful experience! It's a tough job as you are responsible for a human being, not just for their… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
The noble position of motherhood aside, our general opinion about women is that, while taking into account their specific needs, it should… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
“It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
Many women are great at having a separate life that runs alongside motherhood because they've smartly worked out that they need to… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest,… — Katy Mixon Copy Share Image
“The gift of sustenance is crucial to motherhood: the mother providing milk for her newborn from her own body, created from her… — Lisa E. Dahill Copy Share Image
“...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence… — Debbie McGowan Copy Share Image
I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
“Today in an auditorium full of parents my son scanned the room looking for me. When he saw me his face lit… — Rachel Marie Martin Copy Share Image
“being a good mother does not mean being perfect every single moment. we screw up. we get mad, we drink too much,… — Amy Hatvany Copy Share Image
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's… — Laurel Clark Copy Share Image
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