Children Quote by Phyllis Chesler

I sometimes think about the life that my daughter will have with no mom. What does it mean to have a ghost mom? Not…

— Phil Elverum

Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all…

— John Malkovich

That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers. It has…

— Lillian B. Rubin

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain.…

— Louise Erdrich

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

— Romola Garai

Motherhood is a lifetime commitment. With its many twists and turns,and ups and downs, mothers have the inherent ability to ride the waves, brave…

— Heather James

The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas of correct…

— Anonymous

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

— Meryl Streep

Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were…

— Gloria Steinem

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

— Rachel Cusk

I have not met one living being that has not been the mother of all the rest.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso