What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
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Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“Close your eyes and stare into the dark. My father's advice when I couldn't sleep as a little girl. He wouldn't want… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
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My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school,… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
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President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision and move on with their lives.… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
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Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
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Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
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I always knew my mother loved me, but I also knew just as surely that there were moments, hours, days, when she… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
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![“It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in Nashville, my son was screaming with a terrible stomachache. I was like, 'I have to get out of here!' but we had to finish. My friend Jenno, a mother of three who was…” quote by Gwyneth Paltrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/982/gwyneth-paltrow-1230_gas_it-s-really-hard-to-find-things-that-are_1389464.jpg)
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