Maternity Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!

  Julie Chen

  Brother, Weekend, Worry

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• belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager vitality postpone the unenterprising cautions and timidities of middle age.

  Vera Brittain

  Children, Parent, Age

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• The bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire...Here is the bible position of woman briefly summed up.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fall, Men, Race

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity as a business or office needing time and strength, not as a mere passing detail thrown in among mountains of other slavery.

  Miles Franklin

  Children, Civilization, Office

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• I would love to design a maternity clothing line. It is so hard to find stylish clothes for pregnant people I would say 99 percent of the clothes I wore were not maternity because I couldn't find anything I liked.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Clothing Line, Clothes, People

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• The elephant in the room time and time again when it comes to work and promotions is maternity leave. We need to work with businesses so they work with women and make it easy and supportive for them to come back into the workplace.

  Mary Portas

  Elephants, Supportive, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• You're looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God's face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads, jammed freeways, the cancer ward, the maternity ward - all the faces of God surround you at all times.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Country, Cancer

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• She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wall, Fate

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• To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at modest expenditure - and will require a minimum of maintenance costs.

  Dorothy Draper

  Design, Atmosphere, Cost

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• In fact, in the last job I had before coming to the White House - I remember this clearly - I was on maternity leave with Sasha, still trying to figure out what to do with my life, and I got a call for an interview for this position, a senior position at the hospitals. And I thought, okay, here we go. So I had to scramble to look for babysitting, and couldn't find one.

  Michelle Obama

  Senior, Jobs, White

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• Someone once described “Christian Secularism” as the assumption that there is nothing at all to life except a pilgrimage between the maternity ward and the crematorium, and that it is within that span that Christian concern must be exercised because that is all there is.

  Alan Watts

  Happens

  "Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969".

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• It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment, people are working, organising - not just at an executive level, but on the floor, in the warehouse. A man is packing a box of oral rehydration tablets; maternity kits are being prepared; education kits are being packed. And somewhere, tomorrow, those boxes will be unpacked and a child with life-threatening diarrhoea will be saved, a baby will be born in more hygienic circumstances, a girl will receive her first exercise book and her first pencil.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Sympathy, Girl, Baby

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• A woman by her very nature is maternal -- for every woman, whether ... married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological, psychological or spiritual mother -- she knows intuitively that to give, to nurture, to care for others, to suffer with and for them -- for maternity implies suffering -- is infinitely more valuable in God's sight than to conquer nations and fly to the moon.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Mother, Spiritual, Moon

  "Alice Von Hildebrand on Feminism and Femininity". Zenit Interview, zenit.org. November 26, 2003.

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• The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed their child to be murdered, their sense for the sacredness of maternity. Abortion not only murders the innocent; it spiritually murders women... the wound created in their souls is so great that only God's grace can heal it. The very soul of a woman is meant to be maternal.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Children, Taken, Abortion

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• But Sarah Weddingtonhad never told me that what I was signing would allow women to use abortions as a form of birth control. We talked about truly desperate and needy women, not women already wearing maternity clothes.

  Norma McCorvey

  Clothes, Abortion, Birth Control

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• Beginning in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution, when women started to go into the formal workforce, leaving working at home to working in factories, countries realized they needed to do something. And they started to pass paid maternity leave.

  Jody Heymann

  Country, Home, Leaving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.

  Marsden Wagner

  America, Important, Bars

  Marsden Wagner (2006). “Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make the same mistakes as their mothers or grandmothers-they make new ones.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Mother, Mistake, Giving

  Elizabeth Noble (1983). “Childbirth with Insight”

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• I have proposed maternity leave for mothers whose employers do not provide it.

  Donald Trump

  Mother, Employers, Maternity Leave

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue that there isn't a problem. Not to mention the fact that fewer than 1/3 of our MPs are female, that women write only 1/5 front page newspaper articles, that they're less than 1/10 of engineers and that 54,000 a year lose their jobs as a result of maternity discrimination... to name but a tiny sample of issues. It's not 'going too far' to demand equality, and we're certainly not there yet.

  Laura Bates

  Jobs, Writing, Years

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• I survived a potentially life-threatening childbirth-related complication after delivering my daughter. I learned that hundreds of thousands of girls and women die each year due to similar and often manageable complications. They die because they don't have access to critical maternity care that could easily save their lives.

  Christy Turlington

  Girl, Daughter, Years

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• My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.

  Marissa Mayer

  Long, Week, Maternity Leave

  "So Marissa Mayer will be skipping maternity leave - how very American" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2012.

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• It's interesting that there's so many different sides of this: Women get frustrated that we don't get paid enough; and then the Republicans or the CEOs that are men say, "Well, it's because women take off time for maternity leave."

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Men, Interesting, Frustrated

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: 'There Is Always a Backlash'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.

  Henry Adams

  Beautiful, Dog, Spring

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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