Motherhood Quotes - Page 9

• Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it is is troubleshooting and dealing with different personalities and emotions and trying to make everybody happy and at the end of the day reaching your own personal goals and agendas.

  Christine Swanson

  School, Goal, Personality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Mother's love grows by giving.

  Charles Lamb

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (1838). “The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb”, p.196

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• I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.

  Marita Golden

  Wire, Sometimes

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• I realized that so much of the pressure I was feeling was from outside sources, and I knew I wasn't ready to take that step into motherhood. [...] Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around.

  Kim Cattrall

  Mother, Feelings, Pressure

  "Kim Cattrall's Aha! Moment". O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. March 2003.

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• I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.

  Linda Sunshine

  Family, Giving, Birth

  Linda Sunshine (1987). “The memoirs of Bambi Goldbloom, or, Growing up in New Jersey”, Fireside

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• That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.

  Melissa Peterman

  Jobs, Being A Mom, Different

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• Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Reality, Single Mother, Age

  Interview with Jennifer Levitsky, www.bookreporter.com. April 28, 1998.

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• . . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

  Marc Maron

  Surveillance, Morality, Retard

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• With my family, I'm trying to raise them to have respect for all people and make friends around the world and feel at home with the world and really live a truly global life because I think it's what forms them and it's really important to me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Home, Thinking, People

  "Jolie Makes Directorial Debut with ‘Blood and Honey’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. January 1, 2012.

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• Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.

  Katha Pollitt

  Baby, Thinking, Doors

  Katha Pollitt (2014). “Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights”, p.10, Picador

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• Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. 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, Thinking, Names

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• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Substance, Morality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.17, Grove Press

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• Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beautiful, Mother, Peace

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• Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Mom, Blessing, Single Mother

  "Kelly Cutrone Speaks To Storked!". Interview with Christine Coppa, www.glamour.com. February 23, 2010.

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• I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

  Natascha McElhone

  Mom, Zero, Father

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• What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of us all, so by them bespotted, so dyed, that all the world cannot sample them, and wherein it is more fit to admire the Dyer, than imitate his workemanship. Colouring not onely the earth, but decking the ayre, and sweetning every breath and spirit.

  William Lawson

  Mother, Sweet, Flower

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• One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Graves

  'A Poet's Epitaph' (1800)

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• The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Growth, Tears

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.238, Wordsworth Editions

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• Necessity, mother of invention.

  William Wycherley

  Mother, Invention

  William Wycherley (1731). “Plays Written by Mr. William Wycherley: Containing The Plain Dealer, The Country Wife, Gentleman Dancing Master, Love in a Wood...”, p.403

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• Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

  Uma Thurman

  Mom, Jobs, Feel Better

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• I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Priorities, Healthy

  "Beyonce Thinks Blue Ivy 'needs Company'" By Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Facts, Relation, Womanhood

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

  Nia Vardalos

  Meaningful, Done, Meaningful Things

  "The List" by Nia Vardalos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2009.

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• Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  People, Feminist, Offensive

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