Motherhood Quotes - Page 18

• Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

  Srikumar Rao

  Positive Thinking, Apples, Pie

  "Why Positive Thinking Is Bad for You" by Srikumar S. Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the Italian neo-realist films. A lot of them had those characters that represented motherhood. For some reason, in the '50s in Italy, the mother figure was very important - and my character needed to have that energy.

  Penelope Cruz

  Mother, Character, Italian

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Mean, Son

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• What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?

  Nafis Sadik

  Names, People, Ignorant

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• A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"

  Yip Harburg

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Baby, Children, Color

  Ellen Galinsky (1981). “Between generations: the six stages of parenthood”, Smithmark Pub

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• In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Names, Good Man

  June Jordan (2003). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.277, Basic Books

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• In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?

  Mary Blakely

  Reality, Opposites, Roles

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• Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old.

  Danzy Senna

  Children

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Frustrated, Fatherhood

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• At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

  Golda Meir

  Mother, Children, Struggle

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• Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Mother, Distance, Ems

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2012). “A White Heron and Other Stories”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• 'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where were you born?' 'Never was born!' 'Do you know who made you?' 'Nobody, as I knows on,' said the child, with a short laugh. . . . 'I 'spect I grow'd.'

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mother, Laughter, Children

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• Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.

  Maggie Nelson

  Believe, Thinking, Female

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.

  Margot Livesey

  Cheer, War, Journey

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• As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work of mothering (not the value of children) has declined for women, making it all the harder for men to take it up.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Mother, Children, Men

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• I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
  had she not seemed so herself.

  Ovid

  Mother, Blessed, Has Beens

  Ovid (1960). “Metamorphoses”

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• It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

  Erma Bombeck

  Jobs, Training, Today

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.

  Erma Bombeck

  Religious, Political, Age

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• ... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Baby, Art, Sex

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• I was always confident and comfortable. But motherhood is what really made me feel beautiful.

  Ayesha Curry

  Beautiful, Feeling Beautiful

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Selfish, Passion

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1841-1842.

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• What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

  Rachel Cusk

  Two, Feminist, Different

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• Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.

  M. L. Stedman

  Brave, Mysterious

  M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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