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.

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About Nancy Stahl

Nancy Stahl is an American illustrator.

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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?

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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

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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

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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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

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