Being A Mother Quotes - Page 5

• People talked about being a parent, or being a mother or a father. We don't talk about "wiving" our husbands or "friending" our friends, or "childing" our parents. We just talk about being in a relationship with those people. You don't measure whether your marriage was good based on whether or not your husband is better now than he was 10 years ago, or whether your friend is richer than when they first became your friend. The relationships between parents and children is a kind of love, rather than a kind of work.

  Alison Gopnik

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Usually women are the lynchpins of the family. They carry the brunt of the work at home and of being mothers and of taking care of the children. Not always. I have a wonderful husband, who is a great father and has helped tremendously at home. And I think that men are getting in touch and I think that the role that they have is so important, to be a good father and have a good career and be a good husband. But I think that as more and more women go into the workforce, you have to have more help at home and it becomes more of a sharing of responsibilities.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Mother, Husband, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think I was afraid of being a mother for many reasons. I wanted to be a good mom and I was fearful at one point of even working at the national level because I was afraid that I would disappoint a child or I wouldn't be as ready for a big position as maybe I should have been when I came to Fox.

  Ainsley Earhardt

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don't be a whiner

  Marjorie Pay Hinckley

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model--the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mother, Children, Feet

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• Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

  Florynce Kennedy

  Mother, Doe, Noble

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• The greatest thing about being a mother so young, I had my first child at 24, is that I cook, I clean, I love to be independent and kind of hate to be waited on and hate to be taken care of. So, I guess that demonstrates my fiercely independent nature which is kind of anti what I portray on a weekly basis.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Mother, Children, Hate

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

  Samantha Bond

  Mother, Blood, Creative

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• I like being a mother, and I want to be involved in my work, so I have to make choices. If you're a film actress, your career is from 20 to 45, but you can still dream.

  Juliette Binoche

  Mother, Dream, Careers

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• I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I will be ready for that kind of a decision.

  Freida Pinto

  Mother, Decision, Actresses

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• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  Salma Hayek

  Daughter, Mother, People

  "Salma Hayek: My family values". Interview With Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• I never stopped being a mother, and I never stopped being an artist. Which is probably why my kids are so creative. When I'm with my kids I'm creating but I'm still a mom. I don't wear two different hats. My kids have always been on the set with me. I was breastfeeding on set. None of my kids would take a bottle so they could not leave my side for a very long time.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mom, Mother, Kids

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• When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Mother, Running, Holiday

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Being a mother is the role I'm most proud of.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Roles, Proud

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I absolutely love being a mother.

  Molly Sims

  Mother, Love Is

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• The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's amazing if you can do that, but for that to be seen as the norm of motherhood, that women are always supposed to give until they're exhausted, you know, to always take on all these burdens - and it's why I'm so, you know, in favor of protecting all of the abortion legislation we've got, to give women the right to go, I can't do that. I can't do it. I'm too tired.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mother, Tired, Giving

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• I had this whole hippie idea of how easy raising a baby would be. How he would just eat and sleep and listen to Mozart, and I could just go on with my life the way it was. I was very wrong. It [being a mother] has taught me to be present and to live inside my body rather than in some out-there fantasy world.

  Chiara Barzini

  Mother, Baby, Hippie

  "Go Forth (vol. 5)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. November 21, 2012.

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• I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'

  Nicki Minaj

  Mother, Successful, Empowerment

  "Nicki Minaj's naughty gift for Lil Wayne". Details magazine interview, www.rap-up.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

  Billy Sunday

  Mother, Kings, President

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• I love being a mom. Being a mother is my favorite thing ever.

  June Diane Raphael

  Mom, Mother, Love Is

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Mother, Self, Expectations

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• Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought thats what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.

  Jenni Rivera

  Girl, Mother, School

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• Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-heartedattempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

  Margaret Mead

  Mother, Writing, Self

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• Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, Work

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• I remember I had had one woman who had three or four kids, and some of them were having problems. I said, 'Maybe you could go write somewhere else, away from your house.' And sure enough, all kinds of wonderful stuff emerged. She was keeping too much charge of herself because she couldn't stop being a mother when she was in the house. You have to find your own way of letting loose, if you're one of those people.

  Alice Mattison

  Mother, Writing, Kids

  Source: therumpus.net

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