Caretaking Quote by Mary Catherine Bateson

“That women bring home the bacon, fry it up, serve it for breakfast, and use its greasy remains to make candles for their children’s…

— Jennifer Senior

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

It is overwhelmingly women who will plug the gaps in care provision, sacrificing paid employment to look after family members.

— Luciana Berger

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

Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational opportunities has…

— Joan Raphael-Leff

“I think motherhood is the noblest task of all, because you cannot do it at your convenience, or tailor it to suit your preferences.…

— Johann Christoph Arnold

No matter how far they rise, women never stop being the caregiver. At the end of the day, women bear the emotional responsibility for…

— Rod Lurie

How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and…

— Anne Roiphe

As girls are given dollies and pushchairs while little boys are frowned upon for picking them up; while men are 'congratulated' for occasionally 'babysitting'…

— Laura Bates

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific andtorturous, involving…

— Anna Quindlen

“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

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous,…

— Anonymous