The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is both a beautiful dance and a brutally gut-wrenching exercise in self- control. As much as we want to jump in… — Kate Battistelli Copy Share Image
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“The post-divorce lines around Gabby's mouth tugged down her whole face. She suddenly looks older. Older than the image Layla carries in… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“She'd once read a description of new motherhood that had struck her, at the time that she was returning to work after… — Jessica Strawser Copy Share Image
“From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“I think women should have choices and should be able to do what they like, and I think it's a great choice… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“I thought that teaching twenty-eight energetic and needy children how to read had to be the hardest job on earth. I was… — Jani Ortlund Copy Share Image
“A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood… — Evelyn Nakano Glenn Copy Share Image
“I have a word to say to my sisters. When I reflect upon the duties and responsibilities devolving upon our mothers and… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Indian audiences these days aren't really interested in watching a character on screen evolve. They don't want to see a young girl… — Nikita Dutta Copy Share Image
“Two Songs For The World's End I Bombs ripen on the leafless tree under which the children play. And there my darling… — Judith Wright Copy Share Image
“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and… — Avital Norman Nathman Copy Share Image
“I understood and appreciated the miracle of birth, but I did not understand motherhood, nor did I appreciate the oveselling of it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“- A mother, a real mother with a little child, thinks day and night about the welfare of the little one in… — Johann Christoph Blumhardt Copy Share Image
“What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at his disposal.… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“A challenging career suddenly seemed more productive to me because I could measure the results of my work. These precious little ones… — Sally Clarkson Copy Share Image
“I found that when women were able to act in line with their natural inclinations and ambitions -- whether to work or… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
It [motherhood] has changed absolutely everything. I mean, it's changed my life. I think I've changed as a human being more since… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Just because you give birth to a child doesn't make you a mother! Being a mother means taking care of your kids,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
A group of women who valued motherhood, but valued it on their own timetable, began to make a new claim, one that… — Kristin Luker Copy Share Image
Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such… — Kourtney Kardashian Copy Share Image
“Every working mother has the things she dreads, things that keep her up in the night – pink eye, an ear infection,… — Emily Roberson Copy Share Image
“The civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
“It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“All the ways in which women become mothers of some sort. Is motherhood inescapably entwined in female life, a story every woman… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
“Lavinia has seen this happen, seen how, one day, a girl will raise her head to listen, as if for the first… — Bernice Morgan Copy Share Image
However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“Even if I’m setting myself up for failure, I think it’s worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking.… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“Breastfeeding is a beautiful thing, one of the most beautiful things that exist in nature. Think about how a woman can literally… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
![“What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at his disposal. The intimacy between mother and child is not sustaining and healthy. The child learns to exploit his mother's accessibility, badgering her with questions and demands which are not of…” quote by Germaine Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/germaine-greer-1521_children_what-is-certain-is-that-he-the-baby-has_2457642.jpg)
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