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
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: career children death husband motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. —Florida Scott-Maxwell More about this quote Tags: optimism hope improvement mother motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She had risen and was walking about the room, her fat, worn face sharpening with a sort of animal alertness into power and protection. The claws that hide in every maternal creature slipped out of the fur of good manners. —Margaret Deland More about this quote Tags: power manners walking protection motherhood alertness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems onto the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Tags: society money problems mother motherhood psychoanalysis 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
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
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
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
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