Motherhood Quotes - Page 22

• Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Expression, Abuse, Morality

  Herbert Marcuse (1971). “An Essay on Liberation”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

  Homer

  Lying, Fatherhood, Easy

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• I believe that a woman should always remain a woman and nothing feminine should be alien to her. At the same time, I strongly feel that no work done by a woman in the field of science or culture or whatever, however vigorous or demanding, can enter into conflict with her ancient 'wonderful mission' -- to love, to be loved -- and with her craving for the bliss of motherhood.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Believe, Done, Fields

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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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• For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

  Marguerite Duras

  Mother, Children, Believe

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.42, Grove Press

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• The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Mother, Mean, Son

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.

  Joan Rivers

  Baby, Parenting, Glasses

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me Deluxe”, p.19, Penguin

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• Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

  Laozi

  Mother, Sex, Heart

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  One word
  Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
  That word is love.

  Sophocles

  Love, Life, Wedding

  "Oedipus at Colonus". Play by Sophocles, Lines 1616-1618,

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• [After the twins' birth,] I spent two years doing nothing. I was a wife and a mom. But you need that time to grow. You can't be afraid of, 'Oh, I'm out of the public, then I'm going to have to make a comeback.' It's ridiculous. No.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mom, Mother, Years

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

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• She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in the end doing them irreparable harm.

  Marcia Muller

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Marcia Muller (2011). “The McCone Files”, p.303, AudioGO

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

  Emma Bonino

  Mom, Mother, Wife

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• I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Mom, Mother, Giving Up

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• My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

  Christie Hefner

  Mother, Running, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

  Andy Partridge

  Mom, Mother, Parent

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• The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

  Dorothy Fields

  Mom, Mother, Men

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• Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Mother, Children, Hypocrite

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.120

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• I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

  Joely Fisher

  Mom, Mother, Path

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

  Buck Owens

  Mom, Mother, Dream

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• My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

  Toby Keith

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

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• Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

  Natalie Merchant

  People, Giving, Interesting

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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• The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Secret, World, Mystery

  Carlos Castaneda (1971). “A Separate Reality.Further Conversations with Don Juan”

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• In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Men, Years, Long

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• For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Dream, Reality, Use

  "Why we're still seduced by the romcom" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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