Instinct Quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The maternal instinct is in me.

— Katy Mixon

I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

— Leila Slimani

“There is no such thing as maternal "instinct": the word does not in any case apply to the human species. The mother's attitude is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in…

— Samuel Richardson

“Superstitions are primal in nature and because they feed on instinct, having nothing but disdain for reason, they are often swift and unexpected messengers…

— Mansoor Nazeer

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

— Betty Rollin

“I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to protect, to…

— Le Guin Ursula

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

— Helen Mirren

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

— Nina Jacobson

Mothers are instinctive philosophers.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I am not really superstitious but do follow certain established norms.

— Krystle D'Souza

“Like ugly Asian babies, valid superstitions don’t exist. At best, any perceived effect of a superstition is you merely psyching yourself out. Think of…

— Orlando Winters