Motherhood Quotes - Page 15

• Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Mother

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

  A. P. Herbert

  Mother, Dog, Tonight

  She-Shanties (1926) "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight"

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• But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

  Helen Hunt

  Daughter, Mother, Eight

  "IW Talks to the Oscar ’13 Nominees: Helen Hunt Discusses Baring All in ‘The Sessions’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2013.

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• If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect, I'll have hell to pay.

  Larisa Oleynik

  Mom, Mother, Pay

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

  Angelo Donghia

  Mother, Boxing, Screw Ups

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• Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your country, and . . . you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Mother, Country, Boys

  Edward Everett Hale, Hsuan L. Hsu, Susan Kalter (2010). “Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale: "The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

  Edmund Burke

  Mother, Fear, Safety

  Edmund Burke (1816). “The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes”, p.62

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• I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

  A. S. Byatt

  Daughter, Mother, Book

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• In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

  Kristin Hannah

  Daughter, Mother, Writing

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• Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

  Betty Rollin

  Mom, Mother, Block

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• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

  John Milton

  Mother, Lap, May

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

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• O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mother, Art, Nature

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1906). “Note Books: Arranged and Rendered Into English, with Introd”

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• Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

  Robert Southey

  Mother, Pain, Night

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.322

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• Necessity, the mother of invention.

  George Farquhar

  Mother, Philosophical, Invention

  "The Twin Rivals". Book by George Farquhar, 1702.

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• Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with wonder at this mystery of life, and 'understands' with unique intuition what is happening inside her. In the light of the 'beginning', the mother accepts and loves as a person the child she is carrying in her womb. This unique contact with the new human being developing within her gives rise to an attitude towards human beings - not only towards her own child, but every human being - which profoundly marks the woman's personality.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Children, Attitude

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• I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to travel, between the varied and seductive paths of the heart. The lessons of impermanance, the occasional despair and the muse, so tenuously moored, all visit their needs upon me and I dig deeply for the spiritual utilities that restore me: my love for the place, for the one man left, for my children and friends and the great green pulse of spring.

  Sally Mann

  Spiritual, Children, Spring

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• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

  George Eliot

  Heat, Force, All Things

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.224

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• There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Experience, Proverbial

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• The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Abortion, Female, Degradation

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

  Meryl Streep

  Running, Planning, Feels

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• Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Self, Giving

  John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.154, CUA Press

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• Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Mother, Pregnancy

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• Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.

  Margaret Widdemer

  Grief, Mirth, Fame

  Margaret Widdemer (1917). “Factories, Poems”

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• There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.

  William Bourke Cockran

  Mother, Children, Generosity

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