Motherhood Quotes - Page 7

• Motherhood is always an act of courage.

  Stacy Schiff

  Acts Of Courage

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• There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to look and feel like. And it's impossible to live up to those standards. You're setting yourself up for failure at every possible turn.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Crazy, Expectations, Looks

  "Kathryn Hahn on Pinterest, Motherhood, and What It's Like In Jill Soloway's 'Pussy Womb'". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.mtv.com. July 29, 2016.

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• The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

  Vera Brittain

  Baby, Joy, Firsts

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• This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mother, Heart, Body

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Certain Girls: A Novel”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

  Keri Russell

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Graduation, Sports

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.10, University of Georgia Press

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• Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

  Harriet Lerner

  Feelings, Hazards, Inadequate

  "Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life". Book by Harriet Goldhor Lerner, 1996.

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• The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

  Peter Marshall

  Beautiful, Smart, Believe

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• The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Angel, Lessons

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• Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

  Annie Lennox

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• Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.

  Deborah Mailman

  Hard Work, Over You, Energy

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• In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

  Joseph Hertz

  Powerful, Longing, Instinct

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1941). “Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot”

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• Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.

  Glenda Jackson

  Children, Blood, Parent

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• unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

  Betty Rollin

  Divorce, Disappointing

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• Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.

  Betty Friedan

  Diversity, Choices, Feminism

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.

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• The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

  David Boaz

  Children, Way, Poverty

  David Boaz (2010). “Libertarianism”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man, and perhaps even a stranger.

  Emmeline B. Wells

  Love, Daughter, Mother

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• 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.

  Hannah Nordhaus

  Past, Solitude, Youth

  Hannah Nordhaus (2015). “American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

  Diane Keaton

  Real, Men, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Being A Mom, Black, Important

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• Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

  Jody Watley

  Change, Passion, Mean

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• Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him

  Jennifer Connelly

  Mother, Growing Up, Touching

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• I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's

  Kate Hudson

  Mom, Mother, Helping

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• I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Years, Eight

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• 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.

  Sissy Spacek

  Social Values, Years, Dozen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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