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
Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim 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
There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.” — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
“For the majority of our marriage I was so busy mothering babies and nursing on demand that by the end of the… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“He says he needs mothering." "....Even if he didn't need mothering, which after all is only another way of saying he needs… — Hilary Mckay 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
“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
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
“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
“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
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use… — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
“When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the… — Rebecca Solnit 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
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. — Barbara Delinsky 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
The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the… — Henry Rollins 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
