“The journey of motherhood centers on being the person God has chosen out of all humanity and space and time to care… — Rachel Balducci Copy Share Image
The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Motherhood may be a 'killer' when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
“When I wasn’t in the barn garden, helping out, sorting seeds or checking hoses I’d spend time alone, usually in the bathroom… — Michael Poeltl Copy Share Image
“I'm getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours… — Joan Reardon Copy Share Image
The Middletons and the Windsors might seem at first glance to be worlds apart. Kate certainly shows no sign of adopting the… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood,… — Maggie Nelson 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
“Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and… — Martha Wainwright Copy Share Image
Never let a Day go by without telling your Daughter how much she means to you, because one day you may not… — GM Copy Share Image
A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It's unbelievable how God has made us women and… — Jennie Finch Copy Share Image
From Abby Lee Miller's intensity and her students' incredible performances to their devoted moms and its high drama, 'Dance Moms' has become… — Nancy Dubuc Copy Share Image
“If motherhood doesn't interest you, don't do it. It didn't interest me, so I didn't do it. Anyway, I would have made… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the… — Emmeline B. Wells Copy Share Image
With my family, I'm trying to raise them to have respect for all people and make friends around the world and feel… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My favorite thing about motherhood is the outpouring of love that is non-judgmental and beautiful. My daughter just makes me happy, and… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
“Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one...Mariam wished she's been a better daughter to Nana. She wished… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I realized that so much of the pressure I was feeling was from outside sources, and I knew I wasn't ready to… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
“There's no way around it. Motherhood is hard. And you young moms put more pressure on yourselves than we ever did, with… — Bunmi Laditan Copy Share Image
Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have failed to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
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