Admitting Quote by Lydia Sigourney

There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.

— Julie B. Beck

The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

To be a mother is by no means second class. Men may have the authority in the home, but the women have the influence.…

— John Macarthur

“A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood as natural,…

— Evelyn Nakano Glenn

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

— Malcolm X

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

— Hannah Whitall Smith

We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend…

— Carol P. Christ

To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence. She holds…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Even when her rights are recognized abstractly, long-standing habit keeps them from being concretely manifested in customs. Economically, men and women almost form two…

— Simone de Beauvoir