Motherhood Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

  Marie Pitt

  Women, Average, Males

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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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• I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

  Natascha McElhone

  People, Natural, States

  "The interview: Natascha McElhone". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

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• I am no mother, and I won't be one.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Mother

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• Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reality, Single Mother, Age

  Interview with Jennifer Levitsky, www.bookreporter.com. April 28, 1998.

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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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• Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Facts, Relation, Womanhood

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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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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• 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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• Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

  Carre Otis

  Perspective, Joy, Modeling Industry

  "Ending the Myth" by Carré Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.

  Marissa Mayer

  Mom, Mother, Giving

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• My biggest goal for the future is motherhood.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Goal

  Misty May-Treanor (2010). “Misty: Digging Deep in Volleyball and Life”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Mom, Way, Difficult

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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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• I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Mom, Home, Thinking

  "Kourtney Kardashian on being a mom" by Ana Connery, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2011.

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• I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America,' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

  Joan Lunden

  Mom, Morning, Children

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• None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

  Anne Tyler

  Mom, Age, Etc

  "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mom, Careers, Voice

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• Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

  Uma Thurman

  Mom, Jobs, Feel Better

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• I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

  Cass Elliot

  Fall, World, Want

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• I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

  Natascha McElhone

  Mom, Zero, Father

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• When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

  Kate Moss

  Crime, Born, Partners

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• Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Mom, Blessing, Single Mother

  "Kelly Cutrone Speaks To Storked!". Interview with Christine Coppa, www.glamour.com. February 23, 2010.

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