Maternal Quotes

110 quotes by 97 authors

My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived… — Steve Carell
I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That… — Hillary Clinton
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it… — Hillary Clinton
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. — Hillary Clinton
People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill -… — Caleb Carr
Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the… — Phyllis McGinley
I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my… — Beyonce Knowles
Every Mass is a memorial of that one sacrifice and that passover which restored life to the world. Every Mass puts us into intimate communion… — Pope John Paul II
I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing… — Walter Sutton
My family always says my voice is a giftâ€”a precious jewel I inherited from my maternal grandma, Julia Kate Hudson. My sister and I used… — Jennifer Hudson
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is...… — Sheryl WuDunn
Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the… — Ayelet Waldman
It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to seek for peace… — Pope Leo X
Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through… — Oswald Spengler
What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge… — Camille Paglia
If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human. — Mary Beard
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal. — Elisabeth Elliot
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. — Nicholas D. Kristof
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health — Nicholas D. Kristof

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