Civilization Quote by Ellen Key

Tenderness is a virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on…

— David O. McKay

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us,…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Tenderness can be born only of respect for individualities. Tenderness builds its nest in little things, in the absurdities of a face, in personal…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If women are the earliest sources of emotional caring and physical nurture for both female and male children, it would seem logical, from a…

— Adrienne Rich

“It is not biology alone but heroism too that drives women to find the will and grit and creativity to put one’s own impulses…

— Naomi Wolf

They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful…

— Anne Roiphe

There is no human love like a mother's love. There is no human tenderness like a mother's tenderness…In all ages everywhere, the true children…

— Henry Clay Trumbull

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal…

— Edith Stein

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

It is a human circumstance that when we are born we have not yet come into existence. We are lured into our special human…

— Louise J. Kaplan