It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. There is nothing else in life except motherhood that costs so… — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Copy Share Image
What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the… — William Lawson Copy Share Image
The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions.… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“You and I. Hand in hand. An endless story of love. A love that grew in me for 9 months and only… — Veronika Jensen Copy Share Image
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“By the Lady’s never-sucked teats!” “Elas Sil!” “Oh shut up! I’m a woman, I can curse about things like that. Wait, it’s… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
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“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
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
You should never class a chick with kid's as having baggage!!!! If anything it should show that she's got the capability to… — Cole Rico Copy Share Image
“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The little unknown thing was growing within her as suddenly and softly as the first touch of spring on the maples. It… — Caroline Miller Copy Share Image
“If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
She was this incredible mom. With each of her kids, she did something called 'time,' where she would spend an hour each… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“Jesus of Nazareth is so entirely one of them they can hardly find anything special about him at all. He fits right… — Catherine McNiel Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I definitely haven’t been in the best place while working on this book, but I can say this much: Where there is… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“What do you want to be?” “A mother,” I said simply, because it was true. That’s what I wanted first and foremost.… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“I don't think I ever fully understood before now the old saying that goes: "A mother's heart loves her young one until… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
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I have made a choice to fully enjoy my kids and this particular season of my life. It's a very conscious, powerful… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
“Only a woman can carry in her body an eternal being which bears the very image of God. Only she is the… — Douglas W. Phillips 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)
