Motherhood Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• . . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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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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• I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Priorities, Healthy

  "Beyonce Thinks Blue Ivy 'needs Company'" By Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 6, 2013.

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• One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Graves

  'A Poet's Epitaph' (1800)

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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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• There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.

  August Kleinzahler

  Moving, Loss, Light

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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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• Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• At some point it's very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Daughter, Running, Children

  "Beyonce wants slumber parties, normal childhood for baby Blue Ivy". www.today.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I realized that so much of the pressure I was feeling was from outside sources, and I knew I wasn't ready to take that step into motherhood. [...] Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around.

  Kim Cattrall

  Mother, Feelings, Pressure

  "Kim Cattrall's Aha! Moment". O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. March 2003.

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