Mother Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image “For we think back through our mothers if we are women.” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mother Mothers Parenting Thinking
But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender. — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
People have this idea of motherhood, the same way they have an idea of women as we reach a certain age. — Janelle James Copy Share Image
After being a mom, we are now in a different chapter in our womanhood, and instead of trying to be our old selves or… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
As women, we are fully expected to surrender a huge part, or all, of ourselves to motherhood. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half rebelling against… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
