Motherhood Quotes - Page 24

• The best part of having two babies at once, a son and a daughter, is mostly everything. You're just having that feeling of love inside you all the time and motherhood is such a fulfilling place to be. I kind of wish it would have happened to me earlier in my life.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Inspiring, Mom, Daughter

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• Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings

  Euripides

  Mom, Blessing, Light

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• Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  Mother Teresa

  Death, Losing A Loved One, Home

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• You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: "No, I'm a person. You can't fix my underpants on the subway."

  Tina Fey

  Mother, Transition, Noses

  "Tina Fey Reveals All (And Then Some) In 'Bossypants'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 13, 2011.

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• You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

  Amanda Peet

  Oxygen, Metaphor, Mask

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• Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

  Salma Hayek

  Beautiful, Mother, Empathy

  "Salma Hayek Is the Coolest Mom on the Planet". Interview with Sheri Reed, thestir.cafemom.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share.

  Halle Berry

  Real, People, Giving

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• Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

  Nancy Friday

  Friday, Mom, Mother

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• All that I am
  my mother made me.

  John Quincy Adams

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois way of thinking." And then you have a child and yes, everything changes. It affects the way we live, what we do, and where we go - everything. And I wouldn't have in any other way.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.

  Natalie Portman

  Miracle, Mystery, Accepting

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• Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

  E. B. White

  Pregnancy, Waiting, Life Is

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• The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

  Anna Quindlen

  Family, Mom, Daughter

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.113, Ballantine Books

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• I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother

  Hannah Milhous Nixon

  Mother, Honesty, Integrity

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• Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

  Bernard Williams

  Leadership, Sports, Mother

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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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• Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.

  Margaret Widdemer

  Grief, Mirth, Fame

  Margaret Widdemer (1917). “Factories, Poems”

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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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• Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

  Angelo Donghia

  Mother, Boxing, Screw Ups

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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