Bypassing-parenthood Quote by Anonymous

“As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing,…

— Jane Hersey

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence and to…

— Debbie McGowan

“For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations of women…

— Jean Sasson

“She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“...motherhood is the thing in a woman's life that catches her by total and complete surprise.”

— Melanie Shankle

“Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me.”

— D.G. Kaye

“The moment of birth is a miracle .”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe,…

— Kelly Corrigan

“By adopting, I was not a full-fledged mother in their eyes. I hadn't paid the price of pregnancy, hadn't earned the badge of labor…

— Jana Wolff

“In a woman's womb another chance to make the world a better place.”

— Ellen Hopkins