Motherhood Quotes - Page 31

• Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

  Lisa Alther

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

  Peter De Vries

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

  Kate Winslet

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World)

  John Eldredge

  World, Minutes, Broads

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

  Mark Twain

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.22, University of Missouri Press

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• I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of women are uniquely applicable to other realms as well, such as compassionate service and teaching.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Mother, Teaching, Honor

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• Where there is love there is life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

  Mary Pride

  Daughter, Mother, Race

  Mary Pride (1985). “The Way Home: Beyond Feminism, Back to Reality”, Good News Pub

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• What kind of choice is it, really, when motherhood forces you into a delicate balancing act -- not just between work and family, as the equation is typically phrased, but between your premotherhood and postmotherhood identities? What kind of choice is it when you have to choose between becoming a mother and remaining yourself?

  Judith Warner

  Mother, Choices, Identity

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• Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

  Ricki Lake

  Being A Mom, Hardest, Inspirational Motherhood

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• Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn't all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration.

  Dora Russell

  Falling In Love, Sex, Thinking

  "Who is Dora Black?". Equal Rights Magazine, June 5, 1926.

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• The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Mother, Jobs, Wall

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• I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

  L. Tom Perry

  Believe, Teaching, Design

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  I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Support, Independence

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2003). “Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality

  Iris Marion Young

  Parenting, Borders, Scandal

  Iris Marion Young (2005). “On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays”, p.88, Oxford University Press

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• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, University of Missouri Press

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• Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.

  Ann Voskamp

  Children, Soul, Sacred

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• Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

  Erica Jong

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life.

  David O. McKay

  Mom, Sacrifice, Creating

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• To give life another being, what a gift! When he finally was placed into my arms, I looked into his precious eyes and felt an overwhelming, unconditial love... I never felt so complete and empowered in my life.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Eye, Giving, Arms

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• The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mother, Children, Destiny

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• Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Memorable, Men

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• ...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.

  Salma Hayek

  Mom, Priorities, Important

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• Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.

  Jessalyn Gilsig

  Children, Thinking, Yesterday

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• True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.

  David O. McKay

  Practice, Sorrow, Church

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