Being a mother Quote by Anthony Trollope

“Perhaps the Queen's prayers, and those of Bernard, had been efficacious, or perhaps Louise had been more attentive in bed, for during 1145--the exact…

— Alison Weir

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

— Harriet Martineau

For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all…

— Christopher West

“As it became usual for the noble baby to be wet nursed, it became more difficult for a mother to defy custom.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“As presumptive heir to one of the largest Duchies in the Kingdom of the Mists, she could have easily grown up more spoiled than…

— Seanan McGuire

“The gift of sustenance is crucial to motherhood: the mother providing milk for her newborn from her own body, created from her own blood.…

— Lisa E. Dahill

“While women workers were struggling to keep their children fed and alive, their leisured sisters were convinced by doctors that they were too delicate…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“She could be dismissed as a dokhtar zai, or “she who only brings daughters.” Still, this is not as grave an insult as what…

— Jenny Nordberg

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.

— Sarah Addison Allen

The Nile has long nourished women and men alike. On the Nile and the magical, river-island Temple of Philae, Florence Nightingale was so inspired…

— Bettany Hughes

There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the…

— Joseph Campbell

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

— Louisa May Alcott