Altered Quote by Joan Raphael-Leff

We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to have fathers…

— Martha McSally

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

— Edward Abbey

As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work of mothering…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. Give birth…

— Virginie Despentes

“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

I think it's important that we challenge the idea that women who have babies are not fit for work and don't have value. There…

— Jo Swinson

Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't…

— Elizabeth Noble

Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that…

— Sandra Scarr

Women who become mothers are policed and regulated during pregnancy, forced to give up so much - work and ambition, often.

— Ulrika Jonsson

Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had…

— Helen Fisher

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

— Meryl Streep

“While motherhood is an incredible vocation, it has no more inherent worth than a childless woman simply being who she is, to the utmost…

— Caitlin Moran