Motherhood Quotes - Page 22

• Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever happen to me anymore." Her mother comforts her: "It's only natural to want to look young and be young when you are young."

  Vivien Leigh

  Life, Mother, Looks

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• The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Work, Future, Independence

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Thinking, Work Out

  "Beyonce Knowles: It's Possible to Balance Work and Family" by celebrity-mania.com, March 2, 2011.

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• When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Children, Four, Want

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• I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn't think about my own pain... We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Baby, Strong, Children

  "'I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door… so I couldn't think about my own pain': Beyoncé opens up about giving birth and her plans for baby No.2" by Fehintola Betiku, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 11, 2013.

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• Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

  Joan Rivers

  Parenting, Eggs, Watches

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• She was this incredible mom. With each of her kids, she did something called `time,' where she would spend an hour each day doing whatever the kid wanted to do, whether it was play spacemen or `Let's go into your makeup, and I'll make you up like a clown.' And as a teenager you'd be like, `Rub me, Mom. Give me a massage.'

  Jeff Bridges

  Mom, Mother, Teenager

  The ELLE Interview, www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

  Ben Affleck

  Mom, Mother, Teacher

  "Renaissance Man: Ben Affleck" by Karen Durbin, www.elle.com. September 24, 2010.

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• If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

  David Rockefeller

  Mother, Father, Progress

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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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• 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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• James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least four nights a week, and if I'm not, he's not letting me get away with anything. The other night I was sitting with him on the steps before Matthew and I went out to the theater, and he looked at me and said, `Mama, this has got to stop. Go upstairs and take that dress off.'

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Mom, Mother, Home

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

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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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• The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  "Jessica hates 'attention'". www.cosmopolitan.com. November 5, 2010.

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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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• Necessity, the mother of invention.

  George Farquhar

  Mother, Philosophical, Invention

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

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• We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Wife, Mourning

  Letter to Cassandra Austen, 17 May 1799

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• My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"

  John D. Rockefeller

  Mother, Wife, Typical

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• I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Mother, School, Differences

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• So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

  Johannes Kepler

  Life, Mother, Ignorance

  "Somnium". Book by Johannes Kepler, 1620-1630.

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• Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

  John Dryden

  Mother, Eye, Men

  John Dryden, George Rapall Noyes (1950). “The poetical works of Dryden”

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• It's really hard to find things that are worth leaving them for. [Balancing work and motherhood is] really hard. One night in Nashville, my son was screaming with a terrible stomachache. I was like, 'I have to get out of here!' but we had to finish. My friend Jenno, a mother of three who was producing, was great, reminding me that nine times out of 10, they just have gas.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Mother, Son

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

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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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• "Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Mother, Fear, Rain

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• I hadn't been onstage in a while. The last time was pre-children. And before I went on [at Roseland], my kids were backstage, and I thought, This isn't how I usually do it. I've got kids, and I'm thinking, This is weird. It's weird juggling children on your knee while you're in your rhinestone outfit. And I'm thinking, Okay, I'm gonna go out and do a show and I'm gonna be Superwoman! But I'm not really, `cause I'm a mom. It's all very strange.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mom, Mother, Children

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