Motherhood Quotes - Page 8

• Motherhood has never been an ambition. I don't think like that. I never have expectations like, 'When I'm 19 I'm going to do this, and by the time I've hit 25 I'm going to do that'. I just take things as they come, each day at a time, and if things happen then all well and good.

  Renee Zellweger

  Ambition, Thinking, Expectations

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• Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Children, Moving

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• Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

  Felicity Huffman

  Exercise, Guilt, Has Beens

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• giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.

  Storm Jameson

  Jobs, Careers, Giving

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• The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

  Deborah Norville

  Surprise, Knows

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

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• Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Her [Mary's] motherhood extends beyond view. In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid: sheltering him, but sheltered in him, forming him, but formed by him ... When she pronounces the words: 'Be it done to me according to thy word', the Mother conceives the mystery from the Trinity, in order to give it to the Son. The Son gives the word back to the Trinity by giving everything he has back to the Father in the Spirit. Then, after the Father has received it again, it is distributed to mankind by means of that extravagant expansioning-the Eucharist and the Holy Spirit.

  Adrienne von Speyr

  Mother, Father, Mean

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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 wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian and a force as a producer. She paved the way for women to produce and star in their own films, and to balance that with being the matriarch of our family is really inspiring.

  Kate Hudson

  Mom, Mother, Stars

  "Our Own Private Hollywood". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. October 7, 2010.

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• My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?

  Kelly Clarkson

  Mom, Mother, People

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• I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just be really practical and objective. Later, in the privacy of my own home, maybe I'll bawl or break some dishes, but you just have to keep going. It's not about fighting, it's about educating.

  Zoe Saldana

  Mom, Mother, Real

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

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• My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods - except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.

  Jessica Biel

  Mom, Mother, Hippie

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

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• Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

  Marie Pitt

  Women, Average, Males

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• My mother used to dress rather risqué when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms were supposed to wear cardigans and flats, but she was in leather bracelets and minidresses. In hindsight, I thought it was pretty cool, but I'm probably more conservative because of it.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  "The Tao Of Drew" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.elle.com. September 18, 2006.

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• I am truly my mother's son.

  David Geffen

  Mother, Son, Economy

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• I am no mother, and I won't be one.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Mother

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• I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mother, Atheist, Believe

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 1930

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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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• You leak sometimes. My pediatrician said, 'Can't you just wear pads under your clothes?' I said, 'You don't know the kind of clothes I wear on photo shoots.'

  Cindy Crawford

  Mom, Mother, Clothes

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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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• Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name - total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.

  Gwen Stefani

  Mom, Mother, New York

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

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• The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood is the selflessness that it introduces you to, and I think that's really freeing... I think it allows you to put yourself in other people's shoes...the empathy that it slugs you with, being a mother. And I think it makes you a better storyteller.

  Olivia Wilde

  Mother, Thinking, Shoes

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Motherhood and Son Otis: 'He's Amazing in Every Way'" by Brett Malec, www.eonline.com. October 29, 2014.

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• Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Stronger, Vulnerable, Stealing

  Tess Gerritsen (2008). “The Keepsake: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really?

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Mom, Silly, Mean

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

  Natascha McElhone

  People, Natural, States

  "The interview: Natascha McElhone". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

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