Motherhood Quotes - Page 26

• Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

  Kristin Hannah

  Daughter, Mother, Writing

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• In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen o' the May.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mother, New Year, Queens

  'The May Queen' (1832)

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• Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mother, Who I Am, Careers

  Marie Claire Interview, www.nydailynews.com. January 2012.

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• And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

  Aristotle

  Mother, Invention, Creator

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• I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

  Meryl Streep

  Running, Planning, Feels

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• No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

  Margaret Turnbull

  Mother, Father, Women

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• Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Self, Giving

  John Paul II, Brooke Williams Deely (2014). “Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women”, p.154, CUA Press

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• Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with wonder at this mystery of life, and 'understands' with unique intuition what is happening inside her. In the light of the 'beginning', the mother accepts and loves as a person the child she is carrying in her womb. This unique contact with the new human being developing within her gives rise to an attitude towards human beings - not only towards her own child, but every human being - which profoundly marks the woman's personality.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mother, Children, Attitude

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• I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

  A. S. Byatt

  Daughter, Mother, Book

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• But the truth is I wanted to have my daughter for so long. It's not the kind of thing you can visit, motherhood. Especially in the early years. Now she's eight, and I'm still not going to go anywhere.

  Helen Hunt

  Daughter, Mother, Eight

  "IW Talks to the Oscar ’13 Nominees: Helen Hunt Discusses Baring All in ‘The Sessions’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. February 19, 2013.

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• I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
  Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
  And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
  Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
  And the young lie long and dream in their bed.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Stars, Work

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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• What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movementin the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.

  Mary Blakely

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Son

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• To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

  Glenda Jackson

  Humility, Successful, Garden

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• The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.

  Catharine Beecher

  Family, Powerful, Divorce

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1871). “Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession”, p.9

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• ... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.

  Catharine Beecher

  Education, Mother Daughter, Childhood

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1843). “A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School”, p.48

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• Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure or survival through work, the integration of motherhood and the world of work is a source of ambivalence, struggle, and conflict for the great majority of women.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Struggle, Choices, Survival

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world's activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.

  Lydia Hoyt Farmer

  Wise, Spiritual, Mother

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• The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and men. It is an attitude of the mind. It is love - and that love is the very breath of life. No one would say, 'I will breathe only when I am with my family and friends; I won't breathe in front of my enemies.' Similarly, for those in whom motherhood has awakened, love and compassion for everyone are as much part of their being as breathing.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Attitude, Love Is, Men

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “The Awakening Of Universal Motherhood: Geneva Speech”, p.59, M A Center

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• The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood.

  Margaret Sanger

  Sex, Important, Development

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.1, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That best academy, a mother's knee.

  James Russell Lowell

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

  Alan Beck

  Girl, Mom And Daughter, Playing Games

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• I have four daughters, the eldest is 19, the youngest is 12, and I watched all of them journey into motherhood. Motherhood is very deep. It starts when you're very, very young. Now, my 12 year old comes in, wants to put me to bed. And she'll, you know, put her hand on my forehead and say the prayer with me. As for years I've done for her! It's almost like a very beautiful, natural transition.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Beautiful, Daughter, Prayer

  Source: seevanessacraft.com

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• We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized. There's a whole industry around motherhood and mother-daughter bonds. And certainly when my mother was sick I found there was an incredible expectation for me to tell everybody how we were having this bonding experience and how healing it was.

  Meghan Daum

  Daughter, Mother, Healing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

  Lin Yutang

  Mothers Day, Mom, Parenting

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