“Dear Mothers Everywhere! First and foremost - enjoy your children! Rediscover the world with them, as they revel in the mundane and… — Connie Kerbs Copy Share Image
As girls are given dollies and pushchairs while little boys are frowned upon for picking them up; while men are 'congratulated' for… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“Any general social responsibility for motherhood, or move towards the equal sharing of childcare responsibilities is immediately blocked off – this individual… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The right wing of the Republican party-- which controlled the White House from 1980 to 1992, crucial years in the evolution of… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Her boy—this child she raised on her own, in whom she placed her purest faith, to whom she read on countless evenings… — Stephanie Dupal Copy Share Image
Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I ever have...I think there's something about loving Kai [her son] so… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
“Grief is shameless; it refuses to be ignored. If you let it have its way, it becomes fatal. If you try to… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers,… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
“I realized, listening to the silences that fell sometimes in my interview groups, that there are things that are sayable and unsayable… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“I used to fear their deaths--the car! the dog! the sea! the germ!--until I realized it need never be a problem: on… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“My heart filled with Nick's smile, with the look of sheer adoration he gave me as he lugged the bucket. In the… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at.… — Virginie Despentes Copy Share Image
We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality.… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
“I don’t think the world should assume that we are all natural mothers. And it does. I don’t think it’s such a… — Marina Carr Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“I became a mother before becoming sick, but i never expected sickness to take away my independent mothering, so i plant trees… — Nikki rowe Copy Share Image
“That’s what you might call the normal pattern of female life. I’ve seen many girls and women, with strong maternal instincts, keen… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I realized that it was not Ko-san, now safely ditched for ever, but Ko-san's mother who stood in need of pity and… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“She had watched other women with infants and eventually understood what she craved: the boundless permission-no, the absolute necessity- to hold and… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
“You are still a good mom if you -forget to click a selfie with your kid -set boundaries with your little monsters… — Deeksha Arora Copy Share Image
“What you call your life is not yours at all--not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often. .… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“She remembers blood. A fine mist which goes deep into her lungs, over her skin and through the air. She remembers a… — Amanda M. Lyons Copy Share Image
For our maternal mothers the last months of pregnancy and the first months following delivery are generally an exhausting and a challenging… — Danny Santagato Copy Share Image
“My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own my eyes, though… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“That’s the funny thing,” she said. “Men always want to die for something. For someone. I can see the appeal. You do… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“As a mother you have thoughts. You get interrupted. You forget. You are distracted. Your thoughts and ideas become fragmented, diluted, or… — Suzi Banks Baum Copy Share Image
I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“I think motherhood is the noblest task of all, because you cannot do it at your convenience, or tailor it to suit… — Johann Christoph Arnold Copy Share Image
“When I was a newly single mom with a toddler and a newborn, I’d cringe when meeting new people, especially other young… — emma johnson Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
“SHE holds the hand to help you in your First Step, She is your First Teacher, SHE holds your hand when You… — Debolina Bhawal Copy Share Image
![“I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I ever have...I think there's something about loving Kai [her son] so much, in a way that I've never loved anyone, including myself. Also, I used to spend a lot of time alone, but he's this incredibly social kind of guy, so all of a sudden I'm always…” quote by Jennifer Connelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cca/jennifer-connelly-10722_alone-time_i-feel-more-comfortable-in-my-own-skin-n_520179.jpg)
![“I realized that it was not Ko-san, now safely ditched for ever, but Ko-san's mother who stood in need of pity and consideration. She must still live on in this hard unpitying world, but he, once he had jumped [in battle], had jumped beyond such things. The case could well have been different, had…” quote by Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f93/soseki-natsume-9685_grief_i-realized-that-it-was-not-ko-san-now-sa_2993922.jpg)
