Top Motherhood Quotes Collection
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The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.Collection: Motherhood
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.Collection: Motherhood
I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.Collection: Motherhood
Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood is always an act of courage.Collection: Motherhood
You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parentingCollection: Motherhood
Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has taught me a lot about myself, about the things I'm great at, and the things I need to work on.Collection: Motherhood
Everything we did was a first: first bath, first walk, first drive in the car. It was like we walked into an alternate universe that looked just like the old one, but all the rules were different and we had to relearn how to live.Collection: Motherhood
We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their achievements -- but still recognize that there is not a higher good than motherhood and fatherhood in marriage. There is no superior career, and no amount of money, authority or public acclaim can exceed the ultimate rewards of family.Collection: Motherhood
If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.Collection: Motherhood
I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.Collection: Motherhood
There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.Collection: Motherhood
I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.Collection: Motherhood
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.Collection: Motherhood
Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.Collection: Motherhood
Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.Collection: Motherhood
Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.Collection: Motherhood
It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.Collection: Motherhood
The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood is the greatest thing Ive ever done in my life.Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.Collection: Motherhood
What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.Collection: Motherhood
You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women's movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.Collection: Motherhood
I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.Collection: Motherhood
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.Collection: Motherhood
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.Collection: Motherhood
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.Collection: Motherhood
Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.Collection: Motherhood
My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.Collection: Motherhood
When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".Collection: Motherhood
Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.Collection: Motherhood
We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.Collection: Motherhood
Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.Collection: Motherhood
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige meCollection: Motherhood
[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.Collection: Motherhood
One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.Collection: Motherhood
It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?Collection: Motherhood
Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.Collection: Motherhood
I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.Collection: Motherhood
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.Collection: Motherhood
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.Collection: Motherhood
I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.Collection: Motherhood