Motherhood Quotes - Page 10

• Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

  Lisa Unger

  Circles, Bye, Good Bye

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• Yes, the civilization of love is possible; it is not a utopia. But it is only possible by a constant and ready reference to the "Father from whom all fatherhood and motherhood on earth is named," from whom every human family comes.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Father, Inspiration

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• 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.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Love Is, Thinking, Light

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• Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Mother, Children, Loss

  Karen Joy Fowler (2015). “Black Glass: Short Fictions”, p.42, Penguin

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• We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

  Anna Quindlen

  Female, Made, Hyper

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.312, Random House

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• That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

  William Faulkner

  Children, Pride, Trying

  William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

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• Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved.

  Richelle Mead

  Tattoo, Honor, Why Not

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.65, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Eye, Self

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel”, p.52, Harper Collins

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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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• Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Real, Choices

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• There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mother, Voice, Tears

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)”, p.223, Random House

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• It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

  Viola Davis

  Inspirational, Heartbreaking, Moments

  "'Won't Back Down': 2 Moms Fight to Save a Failing School". Interview with Marisa Fox, www.redbookmag.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  Wendell Willkie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “Freedom and the Liberal Arts”

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• Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Depression, Patience

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• Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

  Crystal Eastman

  Equality, Roots, Work Out

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• ~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~

  Amanda Peet

  Parenting, Cuddling, Perfect

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• All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Children, Parenting

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Mom, Mother

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• I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the son of a praying father or a praying mother. I have made the statement before the chambers of commerce of all the largest cities of the country and have asked them to bring forward a case that is an exception to this rule. Thus far, I have not heard of a single one.

  Roger Babson

  Single, Christian, Mother

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• Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sister, Mother, Sleep

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• All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and tenderness.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Feelings, Movement

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• When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces,
  The mother of months in meadow or plain
  Fills the shadows and windy places
  With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Mother, Spring, Rain

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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

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• I remember being seven and asking my mom if I was as pretty as Monique [my best friend in grade school]. And with all the love in the world, my mom looked at me and said, 'Oh, honey, you're so funny.' So, she doesn't lie to me...she answers the question by not answering and instead tells me what she thinks is my greatest strength.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Mom, Mother, Lying

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• [My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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