- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood Quotes
The honest, unfiltered side of raising a family.
These quotes offer an unusually candid look at motherhood, from the challenge of combining work with raising a child to the startling moment of hearing your own phrases repeated by your daughter. Another names the quiet guilt so many parents carry. See I Am.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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