Motherhood Quotes - Page 17

• Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

  Petrarch

  Mother, Cures, Disgusting

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• [Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools.

  Chrissy Teigen

  School, Support You, Challenges

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

  Naomi Wolf

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

  "Naomi Wolf answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Dream, Reality, Use

  "Why we're still seduced by the romcom" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2011.

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• It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film [Dream of Life] is very humanistic: It touches on motherhood, death, birth, art, laundry, anger against the Bush administration... While I don't think it's the kind of film where one goes to find some of the darker, edgier aspects of life, the film was born of grief.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Art, Grief

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your child's well-being on every measure you possibly can at every moment. So when your kid is sitting down playing with Legos, intensive motherhood dictates that you should be engaging with him or her somehow, praising, questioning, making it into a learning opportunity. It's not enough to just tell your child, "Do your homework." It's not enough to help with the homework. You go to the school and learn how they do math, so that you can tutor your child in math.

  Wednesday Martin

  Children, School, Kids

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my life [Laughs], the most rewarding and deepening, so I have a delight in portraying mothers.

  Diane Lane

  Mother, Laughing, Being The Best

  Source: collider.com

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• For me and movies - and it is kind of similar to motherhood and raising your children - I always feel like there's more you can do, and I don't know if that's particularly a female quality. I don't know how dads feel, but there's definitely a never say die, no stone unturned, never give up a minute that you could be pushing it down the road and try to make it better.

  Suzanne Todd

  Children, Giving Up, Dad

  Source: collider.com

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• As girls are given dollies and pushchairs while little boys are frowned upon for picking them up; while men are 'congratulated' for occasionally 'babysitting' their own children and women are castigated for daring to combine motherhood and career; while baby changing facilities are provided in women's toilets but rarely in the men's, is it any wonder we tend to take on the roles society stereotypically pushes on us when it comes to caregiving?

  Laura Bates

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version that includes personal fulfilment through marriage and motherhood in addition to professional acclaim and of course we must look sexy but not too sexy and then graciously disappear when we hit middle age.

  Catherine Mayer

  Sexy, Age, Culture

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college and was a great fan of Noam Chomsky. She was a real lefty and yet was not able to meet her dream of becoming an artist. She got drafted into motherhood big time - seven kids - and that wasn't the life that she had planned. So she opened the path so that I could be the artist that she wanted to be.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Dream, Real, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Cousin, Children, Niece

  Source: seevanessacraft.com

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• I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

  Anna Quindlen

  Knows, Written

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• I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.

  Cokie Roberts

  Children, Realizing, Wanted

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• The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Men, Law

  'Getting Married' (1911) preface 'The Right to Motherhood'

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• Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Mother, War, Rocks

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• Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

  Olga Broumas

  Destiny, Sisterhood, Capacity

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• What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

  Honore de Balzac

  Mood, Save Nature

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.171, The Floating Press

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• At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

  Saffron Aldridge

  Baby, Juggling, Modelling

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• Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks in the press corps will claim I ran out of money or just want to kiss John Corbett again. One of these things is true.

  Nia Vardalos

  Writing, Kissing, Stories

  "Nia Vardalos and John Corbett Will Return for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. May 27, 2014.

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• In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

  Germaine Greer

  Struggle, Umbilical Cord, Would Be

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Men, Giving

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences”

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• What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.

  Betty Friedan

  Years, Names, Movement

  "The Fountain of Age". Book by Betty Friedan, Preface, 1993.

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• This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

  Heather Armstrong

  Children, Kids, Essence

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