Age Quote by Vera Brittain

“The most insidious of the premature responsibilities that may be foisted onto some children is the expectation that the child is somehow supposed to…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if…

— Stella Chess

“. . . the most potent reward for parenthood I have known has been delight in my fully grown progeny. They are friends with…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she…

— Emily James Smith Putnam

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

“Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by…

— Brett Kiellerop-Morris

“They also create wormholes in time, transporting their mothers and fathers back to feelings and sensations they haven't had since they themselves were young.…

— Jennifer Senior

There are mothers that feel they made a mistake by having a kid at a very young age and they didn't get to live…

— LeToya Luckett

“A woman who has acquired any kind of professional skill ought, both for her own sake and for that of the community, to be…

— Bertrand Russell

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity…

— Francis Bacon

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

— Ulrika Jonsson

Late children are early orphans.

— John Wilmot