Motherhood Quotes - Page 20

• Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.

  Sandy Duncan

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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• I always thought my mother was so damn cute!

  Kate Hudson

  Cute, Mother, Damn

  Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 17, 2010.

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• An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source of personal power, let alone political power. I don't think that women now have that same sense that their lives as mothers gives them any special power or virtue. I think women see their lives as mothers as an adjunct to their working lives - a fulfilling and important adjunct, to be sure - but something they do in addition to working in the public realm, not because being a wife and mother gives them a distinct edge in improving the world as we know it.

  Clare Wright

  Mother, Women, Thinking

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• Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Gender, Enormous, Inequality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

  Norman Lear

  Leadership, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

  Bob Woodward

  Government, Play, Literature

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Integrity, Men, America

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• Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Mean, Practice

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• Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Land, People, Giving

  'The Absentee' (1812) ch. 2

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• One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Morality

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (Selected Ideas (1799-1800) #62)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

  Ann Coulter

  Black And White, Differences, Single Mother

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• Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.

  Ann Romney

  Mom, Daughter, Crowns

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• Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.

  Walker Evans

  Cute, Photography, Beach

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• Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Never Quit, Wanted, Happens

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• I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Kids, Parent

  "Gwyneth Lets Her Guard Down". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. January 4, 2011.

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• There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped having ear infections every three weeks, they emerged from the mother zone, and like everyone else, they forgot where they'd been. Amnesia surrounding motherhood is the rule, not the exception.

  Marni Jackson

  Mother, School, Kids

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• My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are the six elements of a Sacred Harp alto: rage, darkness, motherhood, earth, malice, and sex. Once you feel it, you can always do it. You know where to go for it, though it will cost you.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Teacher, Sex, Orange

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (2014). “The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd”, p.49, Milkweed Editions

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• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it’s good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary. When we gloss over these truths we unintentionally promote the very stigma we’re trying to combat.

  Katha Pollitt

  Sex, Moving, Abortion

  "How to Really Defend Planned Parenthood". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Everybody has someone in their life that has breast cancer. It touches femininity, motherhood and sexuality and as Barbara Brenner says in the film, "you get to say breast out loud in public." Big corporations know this and market in a particular way knowing that women make most of the buying decisions in a household.

  Leanne Pooley

  Cancer, Knowing, Decision

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Because I don't have a child and as much as you can sort of imagine it it's always nice to hear from all different walks of life what motherhood is like and what that feels like. And particularly young mothers.

  Abbie Cornish

  Mother, Children, Nice

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We also knew we definitely wanted to infuse into the narrative the relation of women at different ages with motherhood, their relationship with their babies versus their partners', their overall "need" to have children, their fears and projections on their children, etc. All of this we put into a pot, if you will, and simmered for a while until we had what made sense to us.

  Rania Attieh

  Baby, Children, Age

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

  Honore de Balzac

  Smile, Tears, May

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

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• Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Mother

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

  Natalie Merchant

  People, Giving, Interesting

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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• A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.

  Mary Blakely

  Suicide, Teacher, Children

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