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Motherhood Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Haunting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may not want to say it out loud, but motherhood is hard.
- Nov 07, 2020
Til marriage and motherhood happened, I was devoted to my work. I didn't see anything beyond it.
- Enshrined
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- Nov 07, 2020
Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they don't tell the truth!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
- Gave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't wander into motherhood or nonmotherhood unconsciously, recklessly. I gave it due consideration.
- Modelling
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of women wrote to me. Some wrote me long letters on the meaning of the circle and about mythology and about motherhood and the significance or the symbolism of the mermaid and the frogs and the turtles.
- Nov 07, 2020
A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love motherhood.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Winning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.
- Nov 07, 2020
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone.
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class resentment can be waged without ever admitting that's what we're doing.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my friends aren't parents. I find this culture of all-consuming motherhood so oppressive. Not that I don't like to talk about my kids, but if I'm socializing, I don't want to talk about Montessori versus Waldorf.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest, and I helped raise all of my younger sisters. I just fall into that aspect - that motherhood - naturally.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom. I came up with an idea for a story about motherhood that I would want to read.
- Ignorant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood changed me completely.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.
- Per
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.
- Desolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.
- Maternal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The noble position of motherhood aside, our general opinion about women is that, while taking into account their specific needs, it should be made possible for them to take on every role, including the jobs of physician, military officer, judge and president of a country.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New motherhood is such a vulnerable and powerful time, but it's also really hard.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because there is less female storytelling, especially motherhood storytelling, there has been immense pressure on my storytelling to represent more people, and to do so in a sort of unrealistic way.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.
- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a motherhood penalty because we've been long taught things that are stigmatized about motherhood. As workers, we don't want to talk about our kids at work. We're afraid to, or that when we leave at 5:30 to relieve the sitter we're somehow going to be diminished.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being a mom and having two kids. But I've had two C-sections, and I have suffered enough. That's my favourite mantra when it comes to motherhood.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen many female comics that a lot of people haven't heard of who are so funny, and I saw them come up, and they were working so hard, and then all of a sudden they had a baby, and they just got tied up in motherhood, and eventually, they kind of just stopped doing stand-up, and I thought it was such a shame.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020