Fatherhood Quote by Le Guin Ursula

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

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own”

— Aristotle

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

— Betty Rollin

“Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.”

— Aporva Kala

The maternal instinct is in me.

— Katy Mixon

“The bond between a mother and her offspring is strong.”

— Ashley Farley

“Parenthood is the magnanimity of the soul, not the mere outcome of a biological process. (Dr Abin. From TATTERED LOTUS)”

— Dr. Abin

“There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.”

— Stephanie Bishop

“Sometimes, mothers, so conditioned to be all and do all, are complicit in diminishing the role of fathers.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of…

— George Eliot

“It is too late for me to feel paternal now. Whatever inside me that might once have been capable of nurturing my child had…

— Oliver Bowden