Long Quote by Alissa Quart

Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.

— Alissa Quart

“While parenthood served as no disadvantage at all to men, there was evidence of a substantial "motherhood penalty". Mothers received only half as many…

— Cordelia Fine

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“In the United Kingdom, women face wage penalties for time out of the labor force as well, with British mothers' average annual earnings decreasing…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a…

— Erma Bombeck

Motherhood gives you access to a range of different intellectual experiences and ways of seeing the world, which, in a way, makes you more…

— Alissa Quart

I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who…

— Alissa Quart

Discourse about motherhood is chillingly narrow-minded. It's a tool the patriarchy uses, of course. So people complain about their kids or they complain about…

— Samantha Hunt

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

— Edward Abbey

Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.

— Judith Pugh

There's a repression against mothers where we're expected to be full-time workers and pretend we're not mothers, and then expected to be full-time mothers…

— Catherine Reitman

I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true whether you…

— Nell Scovell