Compared Quote by Jessica Valenti

“Enabling mothers and babies to fulfil this period of vital nurture is not a favour to women; it is a contribution to the whole…

— Gabrielle Palmer

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

— Tillie Olsen

Motherhood is more than a biological imperative.

— Norah Vincent

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

— Joan Blades

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

— Meryl Streep

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

— Sharmila Tagore

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources.…

— James Hillman

“Free and accessible child care has always been a fundamental demand of the women’s movement, but the legislative efforts to pass such measures have…

— Lynn Povich

To create a society that is supportive of child-rearing parents is a role of the government, and we are also working to realize a…

— Yoshihide Suga

Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if…

— Stella Chess

The end of parenthood is implicit in its beginning: separation.

— Anne Truitt

“Ideally parentage should be a privilege of health, not a by-product of sexual agitation. Is”

— Will Durant