Motherhood Quotes - Page 19

• No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Song, Writing

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

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• No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.

  Mary Matalin

  Inspirational, Mother, Thinking

  Mary Matalin (2007). “Letters to My Daughters”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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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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• As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.

  Anita Bryant

  Mother, Children, Gay

  "HBO to Develop a Biopic About Anti-Gay Activist Anita Bryant" by Michael Sullivan, collider.com. February 02, 2010.

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• Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Mother, Selfishness, Faces

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• Mother lode of learning.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Mother, Learning

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• Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

  Nicole Appleton

  Tattoo, Mom, Giving

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• Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.

  Danielle Steel

  Family, Girl, Mother

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• No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.

  Jessie Bernard

  Children, Home, Practice

  Jessie Bernard (1975). “The future of motherhood”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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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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• 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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• Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mother, Fashion, Inspire

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1848). “Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems”, p.90

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• It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Education, Mother, Father

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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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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• Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

  Angelo Donghia

  Mother, Boxing, Screw Ups

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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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