Being A Mother Quotes - Page 10

• The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

  Meryl Streep

  Mom, Mother, Parenting

  "Elastigirl: SuperMom Survives Summer" by Lisa Pullen Kent, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2016.

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• I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Character, Kids

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• However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Mean, Son

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• Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Mother, Father, Feelings

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Jesus, Father

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.119, Yale University Press

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• More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.

  Merrill Markoe

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.

  Karisma Kapoor

  Mother, Love Is, Acting

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• Juggling produces both practical and psychological benefits.... A woman's involvement in one role can enhance her functioning in another. Being a wife can make it easier to work outside the home. Being a mother can facilitate the activities and foster the skills of the efficient wife or of the effective worker. And employment outside the home can contribute in substantial, practical ways to how one works within the home, as a spouse and as a parent.

  Faye J Crosby

  Mother, Women, Home

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Girl, Mother, Role Models

  "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

  Milan Kundera

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

  Jessica Lange

  Family, Mother, Taken

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• The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Mother, Children, Rights

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• I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sister, Mother, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

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• The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Real, Play

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• Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

  Ruby Wax

  Mom, Mother, Subjects

  "Happy and Crappy Days As a New Mom" by Chelsey Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.

  Shelley Long

  Mom, Mother, Love Is

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• Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

  Annette Funicello

  Mom, Mother, Roles

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• There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Mother, Responsibility, Challenges

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• Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Mom, Mother

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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