Happy Mother's Day to all mothers in the world. You gave life, carried in the womb for nine months, well cared for,… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way… — Kristina Riggle Copy Share Image
“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish… — Jane Clayson Johnson Copy Share Image
I have twins and luckily when I first looked at them I felt, I am really into you. I am going to… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
“My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What about mothers that abusse the system only to hurt the father that has brought up one of the children with out… — Ross Fenwick Copy Share Image
“But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“...do you have someone you can stay with? Hell, stay with your mother. The Pentagon doesn’t have the security system she’s got.”… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
I must have taken your presence for granted many-a-times. However the truth is whenever I'm scared in a crowd, it is your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is another thing that quantitative studies of American time use cannot show you: for the majority of mothers, time is fractured… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what you're… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I have two children myself. I always laugh; they have you playing mothers pretty early, us women. You look at the television,… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
“I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love. Then—I have no business being a mother. I am… — Megan Mayhew Bergman Copy Share Image
What an awful burden we mothers and fathers, Jewish and not, have to bear - to hatch a thing we love more… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers'… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Mothers are crying all night long waiting for their kids to come home, can anybody see that somethings wrong. The earth were… — Claude Kelly Copy Share Image
I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from "Thank God it's Friday" to "Thank God it's Monday." If any working… — Ann Diehl Copy Share Image
I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the 'new woman' is going to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“My mother had a kindness that embraced all life. She knew her place well and was comfortable in giving everything she had.… — Dan George Copy Share Image
The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
“Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child... There should be… — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
I have one of those old-fashioned mothers who told me every single day, 'Son, you can do or be anything that you… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
People look down on teen moms and young mothers when they are the most gracious and significant women on this Earth. They… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
There is so much conflicting advice for mothers. Women finding out what works for them is the most important aspect. For me,… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
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