Motherhood Quotes - Page 23

• 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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• In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

  Germaine Greer

  Struggle, Umbilical Cord, Would Be

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Men, Giving

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences”

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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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• What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.

  Betty Friedan

  Years, Names, Movement

  "The Fountain of Age". Book by Betty Friedan, Preface, 1993.

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• Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.

  Walker Evans

  Cute, Photography, Beach

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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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• Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

  Lucy Lawless

  Happy Birthday, Happiness, Grieving

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• Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

  Naomi Wolf

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

  "Naomi Wolf answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

  Srikumar Rao

  Positive Thinking, Apples, Pie

  "Why Positive Thinking Is Bad for You" by Srikumar S. Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. . .' (Gospel Ideals, Salt Lake City: Improvement Era, 1953, pp. 453-54).

  H. Burke Peterson

  Mother, Children, Lakes

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Children, Flirting, Men

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• I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I ever have...I think there's something about loving Kai [her son] so much, in a way that I've never loved anyone, including myself. Also, I used to spend a lot of time alone, but he's this incredibly social kind of guy, so all of a sudden I'm always having people in and out of my house. It's changed the way I feel as a citizen of the world. And it's really important to me to feel good about what I'm working on, to justify the number of hours I'd have to be away from him.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Son, Thinking, Numbers

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• It [motherhood] has changed absolutely everything. I mean, it's changed my life. I think I've changed as a human being more since I've had Kai than in any other period in my life...It's such an incredible catalyst for growth. I found myself questioning absolutely everything: how I spend my time, how I speak, what kind of projects I work on, how I look at the world.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Mean, Thinking, Touching

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• You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Mistake, Parent, Touching

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• 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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• 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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