Motherhood Quotes - Page 25

• Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

  Nicole Appleton

  Tattoo, Mom, Giving

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• Mother lode of learning.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Mother, Learning

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

  Tea Leoni

  Two, People, Firsts

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

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• We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their achievements -- but still recognize that there is not a higher good than motherhood and fatherhood in marriage. There is no superior career, and no amount of money, authority or public acclaim can exceed the ultimate rewards of family.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Men, Careers, Fatherhood

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

  Homer

  Lying, Fatherhood, Easy

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• 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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• The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

  Zadie Smith

  Creativity, Ideas, Absurd

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• Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

  Edward Abbey

  Mother, Baby, Jobs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• Young women you will be the ones who will provide the example of virtuous womanhood and motherhood. You will continue to be virtuous lovely praiseworthy and of good report. You will also be the ones to provide an example of family life in a time when families are under attack, being redefined and disintegrating. You will understand your roles and your responsibilities and thus will see no need to lobby for rights.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Responsibility, Rights, Lovely

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• As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Christian, Calling, Highest

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.180, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Inspirational, God, Mom

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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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