Motherhood Quotes - Page 27

• The issue of motherhood is no longer salient. In fact, the very first female bomber for Hamas posed in her last will and testament video with her two kids.

  Mia Bloom

  Kids, Two, Issues

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I've learned that it's way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven't thrown up since the '90s and she's thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby.

  Eva Mendes

  Baby, Struggle, Cake

  Interview with Cassandra Huysentruyt Grey, www.violetgrey.com. November 3, 2014.

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• Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

  Margaret Mead

  Fatherhood, Facts, Social

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• You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Mother, Sleep, Divorce

  The Women act 2, sc. 4 (1937)

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• I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, Mother, Gentleman

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• I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Abode, Wells

  1849-50 Uriah Heep. David Copperfield, ch.16.

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• A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

  Carolyn Wells

  Mother, Guilt, Invention

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

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• Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

  Calvin Trillin

  Girl, Mother, Dinner Guests

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.

  Barbara Cartland

  Girl, Mother, Nice

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• I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beautiful, Mother, Ugly Duckling

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• A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his mother for a quarter to buy a ticket, but the mother refused, telling her son that if he went to that show he would see something awful. Well, the boy sneaked in the show and the first thing he saw was something awful - his own dad sitting on the front row.

  Art Linkletter

  Mother, Country, Dad

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• ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mother, Accountability, Caution

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.11, University of Georgia Press

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• On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

  Aeschylus

  Mother, Fall, Air

  "Prometheus Bound". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.

  A. E. Housman

  Love, Mother, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

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• The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are!

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Poop, Bunch

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• The center of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.

  Angelina Jolie

  Baby, Morning, Jobs

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• Most nights, someone ends up in our bed. The kids do knock before entering. We've at least got that part down because mommy and daddy need some space.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Night, Space

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• I take my kids to school and if I go to work they visit me on set, I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, a very warm home. I'm fortunate.

  Angelina Jolie

  Home, School, Kids

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• Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.

  Busy Philipps

  Mom, Pregnancy, People

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• I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.

  Tilda Swinton

  Baby, Remember, Curious

  "Tilda Swinton: 'I didn't speak for five years'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Your children teach you so much. It's a real mirror of yourself.

  Kate Hudson

  Children, Real, Mirrors

  "Celeb Moms Speak Out on Joys of Motherhood". Interview with Donna Freydkin, abcnews.go.com. May 10, 2008.

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• After Birth is a fast-talking, opinionated, moody, funny, and slightly desperate account of the attempt to recover from having a baby. It is a romp through dangerous waters, in which passages of hilarity are shadowed by the dark nights of earliest motherhood, those months so tremulous with both new love and the despairing loss of one's identity-to read it is an absorbing, entertaining, and thought-provoking experience.

  Lydia Davis

  Baby, Loss, Dark

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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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• Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. Its so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Crazy, Silly, Conceited

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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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