“When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee wanted to prove to… — Cokie Roberts Steve Roberts Copy Share Image
“Because the truth was, there was a dark underbelly of terror to motherhood. You loved your children with such an overwhelming fierceness… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
“Arthur shook his head. "You'd be an appalling mother, Morgana. You're a terrible example, you know," he said, handing her the bottle.… — FayJay Copy Share Image
“It's 5:22pm you're in the grocery checkout line. Your three-year-old is writhing on the floor, screaming, because you have refused to buy… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
Combining paid employment with marriage and motherhood creates safeguards for emotional well-being. Nothing is certain in life, but generally the chances of… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
I remember being seven and asking my mom if I was as pretty as Monique [my best friend in grade school]. And… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
“Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Women are like trees, growing slowly over time. So many rings creating layers of maturity as their branches spread and reach out… — P.R. Newton Copy Share Image
The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Prayer is the privilege of missional motherhood. Pray for the global church, the church in your country, and the church in your… — Gloria Furman Copy Share Image
“Just because I didn't have a spouse to help and enjoy those activities with didn't mean they couldn't happen. Just because my… — emma johnson Copy Share Image
. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“I find it offensive to motherhood to call being a mother a job. Being a mother isn’t a job. It’s who someone… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
I've seen many female comics that a lot of people haven't heard of who are so funny, and I saw them come… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. Painful is birth again & again. House-builder,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Mothers are likely to have more bad days on the job than most other professionals, considering the hours: round-the-clock, seven days a… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
“To my children, I was just Mom. That was all. And before that, I had been Charles’s wife, the bereaved mother of… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Fanfare for the Makers A cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what? To the small fire that never leaves the sky. To… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
“Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“Back in the pens, once the herd was gathered, the men gingerly and methodically guided the calves into a separate gated area.… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A woman who has acquired any kind of professional skill ought, both for her own sake and for that of the community,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Ah, selfish. There’s that word again.” Sherry smirked. “It’s been hurled at me many a time, because being a mother and wife… — Andrea Lochen Copy Share Image
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“More than economic dependency of the wife and children on the husband and father is needed to preserve the institution of the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“In 'The Female Eunuch' I argued that motherhood should not be treated as a substitute career; now I would argue that motherhood… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“I'm just saying, when a woman in a maiden, she's in the spotlight. Everybody cares what a pretty, young girl does and… — Rufi Thorpe Copy Share Image
“On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight into the kitchen,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
After I had my daughter, I kind of got comfortable with motherhood and had time to focus on something else then I… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
“I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in life;… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
“Our culture sends some amazingly contradictory messages about what an ideal mother is like. Mothers try to live up to these ideals… — Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D Copy Share Image
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