Motherhood Quotes

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. Joan Blades
Motherhood Ability Parent Given Purpose Mothers Manifesto Really Need
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. Meryl Streep
Mom Motherhood Everything Reduced Effect Very Gets Essentials
Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us. Sheri L. Dew
Nature Women Father Motherhood Gave Our Our Father Defines Though Stature More Bearing Divine Identity Very Than Traits Essence Children Us Certainly Who Unique
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years. Taslima Nasrin
Women Mind Men Long Motherhood Controlling Thousands Thousands Of Years Fabricated Chastity Like Concepts Traditional Been Years Legacy Victims Body Notions Societies
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling. A. S. Byatt
Generation Women Mother Feeling Motherhood Think Complete Minds Books Kitchen Daughters Never Idea Up Very Afraid Where Grew Anything Fictive
Motherhood changes everything. Adriana Trigiani
Motherhood Changes Everything
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. Ali Wong
Love Mom Motherhood Enough Kids Favourite Having Had Being Mantra Suffered Two
Motherhood gives you access to a range of different intellectual experiences and ways of seeing the world, which, in a way, makes you more flexible in the workplace. But our employers, our colleagues, don't necessarily understand. Alissa Quart
You World Motherhood Our Way Range Ways Colleagues Seeing More Gives Employers Makes Understand Access Intellectual Different Experiences Which Flexible Workplace Necessarily
Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty. Alissa Quart
Motherhood Penalty Fact Name Mothers Familiar Painfully Workplace Even Now Suffer
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?' Allison Pearson
You Change Cleaning Impossible Motherhood Baby Software Give Like Dry Male Brain Get Tasks Them Fully Download Two Program
There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate. Angelina Jolie
You Director People Motherhood Think Constantly Something Well Very Being Transfer Asking Compassionate Set
Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt. Anna Faris
Guilt Big Motherhood Sleeping Bag Like
Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It's become my life's work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood. Anna Getty
Life Work Best Nature Me Parenting Women Mother Become Motherhood Other Has-Been Sharing Becoming Been Encouraging Just Information Ever Thing Basic Receptive
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. Anne-Marie Duff
Myself You Important Motherhood Until Altered Epic Really Inhabit Help Event
Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody. Annie Lennox
Great Me Motherhood Everybody Identify Started
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. Ayelet Waldman
Motherhood Way Out Pretty About Both Consumed Nonfiction Am Issues Been Expectations Roles Fiction Much Act Societal
Motherhood is far better than I expected. I love it with all of my heart. Ayesha Curry
Love Heart Better Motherhood Than Expected Far
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Barbara Ehrenreich
Mom Thought Motherhood Ladder Pay Pedestal Out Moral Some About Pointed Take Putting Nobody Until Nonexistent Feminists Brash Lousy Century Ever Career
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments. Barbara Kingsolver
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I really love doing simple things. I'm surrounded by people all the time at work, so I want to have a normal life when I'm off duty: motherhood, food, and love! Bianca Balti
Life Work Love Time Food People Simple Motherhood Duty Simple Things Doing Normal Off Normal Life Surrounded Want Really Things
It's been so wonderful to hear the realities behind motherhood. Camilla Luddington
Wonderful Motherhood Hear Been Behind Realities
Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door. Caroline Leavitt
Politics You World Motherhood Nothing Relations Indelible Magic Scenarios Boston Outside Talented Opera She Door Race Swear Race Relations Creating Your Right
I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood. Cass Elliot
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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. Catherine Reitman
People Pressure Motherhood Way Immense Has-Been More Unrealistic More People Sort Because Female Been Represent Storytelling Less
The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time for motherhood? Christina Milian
Time Balance Stress Motherhood Out About Only My Time Make Sure How Am Going The Only Thing Thing
Motherhood may be a 'killer' when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that touch of baby's lips to bosom, a big and growing number find themselves able - and often required - to bring home the family bacon. Chrystia Freeland
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