Being A Mother Quotes - Page 7

• Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

  Anna Friel

  Mother, Pain, Sleep

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

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• Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.

  Steven Chu

  Mother, School, Focus

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• Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

  Anthony Trollope

  Mother, Nursing, Nurse

  Anthony Trollope (1866). “Doctor Thorne. A Novel. 9th Ed”, p.27

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• If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don`t give up.

  Mary Kom

  Mother, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.

  Deepa Kumar

  Girl, Mother, Two

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• Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Education, Mother, Sex

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1845). “Letters to Mothers”, p.16

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• Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mother, Thinking, Would Be

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• The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the family. I am absolutely persuaded one of the reasons so many lesbians are at the forefront of the pro-choice movement is because being a mother is the unique
  characteristic of womanhood, and these lesbians will never be mothers naturally, so they don't want anybody else to have that privilege either.

  Pat Robertson

  Mother, Unique, Moral Fiber

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• I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

  Frances O'Grady

  Mother, Thinking, Feet

  "'Never mind glass ceilings, what about glass skirting boards?'". Interview with Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2003.

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• Get wreck in the kitchen like she on the Cooking Channel,
  And then hide the heat in the car door...
  God damn, she's a mother-to-be, ya hope for twins,
  Give me a whole tribe!
  And be as sexy as Janet was on the cover of Vibe.

  Sadat X

  Mother, Sexy, Rap

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• I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Mother, Nice, Surprise

  "Marathon mum". Interview with Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2007.

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• Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Empathy, Quality, Culture

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• I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!

  Jordin Sparks

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Eye

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• I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.

  Marissa Mayer

  Mom, Mother, Giving

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• As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

  Rachel Cusk

  Motherhood, Feelings, Heroism

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• Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

  Katey Sagal

  Mother, Teacher, Sacrifice

  Interview with Rachel Bertsche, www.oprah.com. August 17, 2009.

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• Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").

  Harriet Lerner

  Mother, Home, Ambition

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

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• Being a mother is the perfect experience for any writer. You learn how to not waste time. The writing hours become incredibly precious and concentrated because the rest of your day is completely packed with diapers, edible liquid foods that look like pooh, tiny bathtubs, and unconditional love.

  Chiara Barzini

  Mother, Writing, Unconditional Love

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• With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing.

  Sarah Polley

  Mother, Like You, Good Things

  Interview with Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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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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• Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

  Liane Moriarty

  Mother, Decision, Tiny

  Liane Moriarty (2013). “The Husband's Secret”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.

  Eva Mendes

  Mother, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Mean, Home

  "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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• Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mother, Children, Phones

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• Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Girl, Mother, Baby

  "Brigitte Nielsen" by Nick McGrath, July 29, 2011.

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