Motherhood Quotes - page 7

Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail. (Sheri L. Dew)
Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie. View quote
Srikumar Rao
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. View quote
Uma Thurman
Mighty is the force of motherhood It transforms all things by its vital heat. View quote
George Eliot
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
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. View quote
Angelina Jolie
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd. View quote
Zadie Smith
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about. (Emma Thompson)
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar. View quote
David Attenborough
Men feared, adored, and obeyed the matriarch; the hearth which she tended in a cave or hut being their earliest social centre, and motherhood their prime mystery. View quote
Robert Graves
Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me. View quote
Edie Falco
The demands of motherhood especially consume the old self, and replace it with something new, often better and wiser, sometimes wearier or disillusioned, or tense and terrified, certainly more self-knowing, but never the same again. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
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. View quote
A. S. Byatt
What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives. View quote
Betty Friedan
This working, with all that be fair and good, our Lord doeth it in them by whom it is done: thus He is our Mother in Nature by the working of Grace in the lower part for love of the higher part. And He willeth that we know this: for He will have all our love fastened to Him. And in this I saw that all our duty that we owe, by God's bidding, to Fatherhood and Motherhood, for God's Fatherhood and Motherhood is fulfilled in true loving of God; which blessed love Christ worketh in us. View quote
Julian of Norwich
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately. View quote
Erica Jong
I don't want to overdo discussing my experience of motherhood, its too private and profound to parade around. I will say that carrying a child, giving birth to a child and raising that child up has made me feel more engaged and connected to others. I have a greater understanding of people (living past & present). We all begin so pure, so innocent and so hungry for physical and emotional comfort. It's so important that every baby be generously cherished, fed and comforted. I can see now how withholding these essentials can do irreparable damage. (Natalie Merchant)
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. View quote
Camille Paglia
Since Baby's birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness. View quote
Nalo Hopkinson
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years. View quote
Thomas Frank
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race. View quote
Margaret Sanger