Motherhood Quotes - Page 12

• [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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• The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

  Susan Chira

  Advice, Burden, Consistent

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• The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

  S. R. Nathan

  Progress, Prosperity, Statements

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• Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beautiful, Mother, Peace

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• I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just be really practical and objective. Later, in the privacy of my own home, maybe I'll bawl or break some dishes, but you just have to keep going. It's not about fighting, it's about educating.

  Zoe Saldana

  Mom, Mother, Real

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?

  Kelly Clarkson

  Mom, Mother, People

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• I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian and a force as a producer. She paved the way for women to produce and star in their own films, and to balance that with being the matriarch of our family is really inspiring.

  Kate Hudson

  Mom, Mother, Stars

  "Our Own Private Hollywood". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. October 7, 2010.

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• My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

  Camilla Belle

  Mom, Mother, Growing Up

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• You leak sometimes. My pediatrician said, 'Can't you just wear pads under your clothes?' I said, 'You don't know the kind of clothes I wear on photo shoots.'

  Cindy Crawford

  Mom, Mother, Clothes

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• Giving up my scotch? My Macallan 18? That was hard for me! Though now that doesn't even sound good, being pregnant. You crave other things. A big thing of water sounds great!

  Jessica Simpson

  Mom, Mother, Giving Up

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name - total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Mother, New York

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Husband, Inspiration

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• Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

  Marc Maron

  Surveillance, Morality, Retard

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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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• 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'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

  Toni Braxton

  Mom, Mother, Kids

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

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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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• Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to do this, and by the time I've hit 25 I'm going to do that'. I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen then all well and good.

  Renee Zellweger

  Ambition, Thinking, Expectations

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• Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

  Felicity Huffman

  Exercise, Guilt, Has Beens

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• The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

  Deborah Norville

  Surprise, Knows

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

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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 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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• That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.

  Melissa Peterman

  Jobs, Being A Mom, Different

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• There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

  Susie Bright

  Christian, Distance, Criticism

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