Motherhood Quotes - Page 28

• Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

  Edith Wharton

  Self, Charity, Surprise

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1841, Delphi Classics

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• I believe in the Motherhood of God.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia”

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• Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Powerful, Two, America

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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 the greatest thing Ive ever done in my life.

  Sara Rue

  Done

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• People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

  Imelda May

  Mother, Fun, Numbers

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• The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

  Betty Friedan

  Art, Sex, Commitment

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• I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherhood makes people uneasy. The ambivalent mother is certainly much more interesting.

  Laurie Foos

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Margaret Mead

  Fatherhood, Facts, Social

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• I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, I Can

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.

  Whitney Houston

  Mother, Children, Believe

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

  Carolyn Wells

  Mother, Guilt, Invention

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

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