Maternity Quotes

• Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.

  George Gilder

  Motivation, Community, Identity

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Thinking, Issues

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• Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Body, Happens

  "Big new tax – debate over Abbott's parental leave plan [Transcript]". Uhlmann, C., www.abc.net.au. March 09, 2010.

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

  Rajneesh

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• War is to man what maternity is to a woman

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Men, Perpetual

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• As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

  Peter Greenaway

  Barren, Spinsters, Mediocre

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

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• Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Fall, Numbers, Work Out

  "Sheryl Sandberg Is Half Right" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

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• Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be.

  Carrie Fisher

  Love, Baby, Pregnancy

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• Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

  Dale Dauten

  Government, Giving, Stubborn

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• Many of our problems in US maternity care stem from the fact that we leave no room for recognizing when nature is smarter than we are.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Care, Rooms, Facts

  Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.108, Seven Stories Press

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• I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

  Ben Lindsey

  Mother, Demand, Sacred

  "Philippines Free Press", Volume 62, Issues 46-52, (p. 44), 1969.

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• Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

  Edward Abbey

  Pro Life, Abortion, Want

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

  Benito Mussolini

  Military, War, Believe

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 2), 2002.

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• Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Mother, Selfishness, Faces

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

  Rajneesh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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• There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

  Jill Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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• I had to get back to work... NBC has me under contract; the baby and I only have a verbal agreement.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Mom, Baby

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

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• All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Love, Pregnancy, Swimming

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• Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baby, Pregnancy, Flames

  "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

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• While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

  Sheri L. Dew

  God, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Reading, Son

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1728, Delphi Classics

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• If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to fare better when women control the means of production and reproduction. From this point of view, it is simply not in women's interest to support patriarchy or even a fabled "equality" with men. That women do so is more a sign of powerlessness than of any biologically based "superior" wisdom.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Mean, Men, Views

  Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”

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• I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue.

  Charles Montgomery

  Sweet, Opportunity, Wish

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• Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Baby, Weekend

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