Motherhood Quotes - Page 18

• I am just blessed they are such great, really wonderful kids.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Blessed, Kids, Touching

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• We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone hears the intelligent sound and moves with thirst to meet it.

  Rumi

  Christian, Mother, Buddhist

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• Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Women, Two

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• And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

  Aristotle

  Mother, Invention, Creator

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• A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

  Emma Bonino

  Mom, Mother, Wife

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• Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?

  Maria Shriver

  Men, Humanity, Trying

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• Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate. As President J. Reuben Clark Jr. declared, motherhood is ‘as divinely called, as eternally important in its place as the Priesthood itself.’

  Sheri L. Dew

  Daughter, Children, Father

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• We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find nobility and divinity in motherhood, so be it. For mother is the word that will define a righteous woman made perfect in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, a woman who has qualified for eternal increase in posterity, wisdom, joy, and influence.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, Perfect, Joy

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• Patti Callahan Henry’s THE STORIES WE TELL is a lyrical exploration of love and longing, secrets and suspicion, family and friendship, all told with the author’s trademark insights into the hollows and curves of the heart and mind of a working woman who must balance the demands of motherhood, wifedom, sisterhood, and yes, the deepest cravings for artistic expression. I always love the stories PCH tells!

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Heart, Sisterhood, Expression

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• Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Children, Expectations, Preparation

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• Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

  Erma Bombeck

  Responsibility, Mind, Life Is

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.240, Open Road Media

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• The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light on the passage from religion toward faith, from self-medication to sobriety, from daughterhood to motherhood, from being the disembodied 'good girl' to embracing her own bad lesbian self. In crisp chapters, Seaton leads us, step-by-step, over this harrowing and blissful road, so distinct from yet so much like our own.

  Terry Wolverton

  Girl, Sex, Journey

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• Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mother, Who I Am, Careers

  Marie Claire Interview, www.nydailynews.com. January 2012.

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• I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

  William Trevor

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Thinking

  William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.145, Penguin

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• The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Mother, Forgiving

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Awakened India”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Everything we did was a first: first bath, first walk, first drive in the car. It was like we walked into an alternate universe that looked just like the old one, but all the rules were different and we had to relearn how to live.

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Car, Different, Firsts

  Soleil Moon Frye (2011). “Happy Chaos”, p.21, Penguin

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