Motherhood Quotes - Page 7

• There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to look and feel like. And it's impossible to live up to those standards. You're setting yourself up for failure at every possible turn.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Crazy, Expectations, Looks

  "Kathryn Hahn on Pinterest, Motherhood, and What It's Like In Jill Soloway's 'Pussy Womb'". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.mtv.com. July 29, 2016.

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• Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

  Harriet Lerner

  Feelings, Hazards, Inadequate

  "Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life". Book by Harriet Goldhor Lerner, 1996.

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• The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

  Vera Brittain

  Baby, Joy, Firsts

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• You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

  Keri Russell

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mother, Heart, Body

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Certain Girls: A Novel”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

  Christina Stead

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.286, Head of Zeus

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• Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.

  Glenda Jackson

  Children, Blood, Parent

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• The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mother, Angel, Lessons

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• Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.

  Deborah Mailman

  Hard Work, Over You, Energy

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• In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

  Joseph Hertz

  Powerful, Longing, Instinct

  Joseph Herman Hertz (1941). “Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot”

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• Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

  Annie Lennox

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• unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

  Betty Rollin

  Divorce, Disappointing

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• The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of women: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, divorced women. But so seldom to we hear of a godly woman--or of a godly man either, for that matter. I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.

  Peter Marshall

  Beautiful, Smart, Believe

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• Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.

  Betty Friedan

  Diversity, Choices, Feminism

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.

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• The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

  David Boaz

  Children, Way, Poverty

  David Boaz (2010). “Libertarianism”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man, and perhaps even a stranger.

  Emmeline B. Wells

  Love, Daughter, Mother

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• Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

  Hannah Nordhaus

  Past, Solitude, Youth

  Hannah Nordhaus (2015). “American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

  Thomas Frank

  Philosophical, Years, Political

  "Rent-a-Womb Is Where Market Logic Leads" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2009.

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• All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Children, Parenting

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Home, Boys

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• The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

  Allison Pearson

  Baby, Two, Dry Cleaning

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• ~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~

  Amanda Peet

  Parenting, Cuddling, Perfect

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• Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Commitment, Being A Mom, Life Is

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• I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take it on if you can commit to it and if you know you can accommodate and give your best to it and that's what you do, and I have always done that throughout my life - before marriage, after marriage, before motherhood, after motherhood.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Mean, Commitment, Giving

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