Motherhood Quotes - Page 8

• You know, motherhood is my favourite topic in my personal life and I won't shut up about it, but it's not something I want to discuss publicly just because of the amount of attention it draws to a small person who didn't choose to be exposed.

  Isla Fisher

  Want, Topics, Attention

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• I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

  Anne Frank

  Kindness, Heart, Compassion

  Anne Frank (1989). “The diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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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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• My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

  Camilla Belle

  Mom, Mother, Growing Up

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I remember being seven and asking my mom if I was as pretty as Monique [my best friend in grade school]. And with all the love in the world, my mom looked at me and said, 'Oh, honey, you're so funny.' So, she doesn't lie to me...she answers the question by not answering and instead tells me what she thinks is my greatest strength.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Mom, Mother, Lying

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• I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.

  Diane Kruger

  Crazy, Being A Mom, Want

  "Interview: Inglourious Basterds ‘ Diane Kruger". Interview With Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2009.

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• [My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mother, Children, Soul

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.7, TAN Books

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• Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.

  Loretta Lynn

  Mom, Mother, Barns

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.31, Vintage

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• Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sad, Religion, Morality

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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• I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

  Helen Mirren

  Instinct, Maternal Instinct, Interest

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• Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Marriage, Fathers Day

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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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• 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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• Giving up my scotch? My Macallan 18? That was hard for me! Though now that doesn't even sound good, being pregnant. You crave other things. A big thing of water sounds great!

  Jessica Simpson

  Mom, Mother, Giving Up

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

  Anna Quindlen

  Female, Made, Hyper

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.312, Random House

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• Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Real, Choices

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• A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Mother, Children, Gone

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Willem Samuels (2002). “The girl from the coast: a novel”, Hyperion Books

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• A boy's best friend is his mother.

  Joseph Stefano

  Movie, Family, Mom

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Powerful, Heart

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.21, Penguin

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• Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Believe, Tasks

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mother, Voice, Tears

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)”, p.223, Random House

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