“Mothering, I believe, requires engaging every muscle, every nerve, every fiber of our being, and through it all we pray.” — Patricia T. Holland Copy Share Image
“She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children. — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a lot of empathy, and I think that's where mothering starts. You are there to empathise and facilitate. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
“She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~” — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung! — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth… — Sarah J. Buckley Copy Share Image
Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating,… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge,… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Mothering is just so different now from the way it was before. Especially with my mom. She was like the anti-helicopter mom.… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“A talent for building children's souls, Hilde. So building their souls that they might grow straight and fine, nobly and beautifully formed,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“Babies of around one year old are often active by day and wake frequently at night, for no obvious reason. Then a… — Naomi Stadlen Copy Share Image
Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, overconnect with,… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
“Here’s another example that some overworked mothers might find inspiring. We saw in Chapter 2 that being the one who produces the… — Cordelia Fine 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 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
I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing… Thinking back on it all, it must have been the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“All infants and children require and deserve comfort in order to develop properly. Soft cooing voices, gentle touch, smiles, cleanliness, and wholesome… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.” — Vimala McClure Copy Share Image
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks?… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
“Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces...Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“florens would sigh then, her head on lina's shoulder and when sleep came the little girl's smiel lingered. mother hunger – to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties,… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying… — Mommy Moo Moo Copy Share Image
I am lucky in that my children are grown, my youngest is twenty-seven. I didn't have the conflict between artist and mother… — Pegi Young Copy Share Image
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I had my children, fell in love with mothering, yet couldn't find what I was looking for in terms of support or… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
Much of the writing I do about the female body is to remind women, myself included, that they make life and they… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
