Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions. —Nancy Stahl More about this quote Tags: religion possessions obligation motherhood relinquishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “motherhood” How insulting is it to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own. —Jessica Valenti in Why Have Kids? More about this quote Tags: accomplishment feminism women parenting motherhood sexism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There is an emptiness inside of me—a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again. —Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters More about this quote Tags: love mother motherhood emptiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before. —Ellen DeGeneres More about this quote Tags: humor alcohol motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Tags: strength laws motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put "unwed" or "welfare" in front of it? —Florynce Kennedy More about this quote Tags: nobility marriage motherhood welfare Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How insulting is it to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own. —Jessica Valenti in Why Have Kids? More about this quote Tags: accomplishment feminism women parenting motherhood sexism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is an emptiness inside of me—a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again. —Hope Edelman in Motherless Daughters More about this quote Tags: love mother motherhood emptiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before. —Ellen DeGeneres More about this quote Tags: humor alcohol motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Tags: strength laws motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put "unwed" or "welfare" in front of it? —Florynce Kennedy More about this quote Tags: nobility marriage motherhood welfare Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email