Motherhood Quotes - Page 12

• I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

  Anne Frank

  Kindness, Heart, Compassion

  Anne Frank (1989). “The diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

  Thomas Frank

  Philosophical, Years, Political

  "Rent-a-Womb Is Where Market Logic Leads" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2009.

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• Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Mother, Children, Loss

  Karen Joy Fowler (2015). “Black Glass: Short Fictions”, p.42, Penguin

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• The mob is the mother of tyrants.

  Diogenes

  Mother, Tyrants

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• The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Eye, Self

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Gravedigger's Daughter: A Novel”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved.

  Richelle Mead

  Tattoo, Honor, Why Not

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.65, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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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

  Feelings, Being A Mother, Heroism

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• That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

  William Faulkner

  Children, Pride, Trying

  William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

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• We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

  Anna Quindlen

  Female, Made, Hyper

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.312, Random House

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• I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  Rachel Cusk

  Taken, People, Identity

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• Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

  Janice Dickinson

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

  Ashley Scott

  Mom, Mother, Hot

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• I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

  Helen Mirren

  Instinct, Maternal Instinct, Interest

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• ...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.

  Joan Bauer

  Should Have, Car, Tests

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Hope Was Here”, p.13, Penguin

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• I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Religious, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

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• No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about you, it is important for you Latter-day Saint women to understand that the Lord holds motherhood and mothers sacred and in the highest esteem. He has entrusted to his daughters the great responsibility of bearing and nurturing children.... There is divinity in each new life.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Believe, Tasks

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.

  Jay Leno

  Life, Mother, People

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

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• My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Children, Powerful, Heart

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.21, Penguin

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• Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Mother, White

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• No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Mother, Method

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mother, Attitude, Reality

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• A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Mother, Children, Gone

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Willem Samuels (2002). “The girl from the coast: a novel”, Hyperion Books

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• Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mother, Giving, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Should, Difficult

  "The Report From Baghdad and Pension Funding Troubles". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. June 27, 2003.

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