Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her ve...
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
(n.) The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be 'Doctor of Life,' and I will be in good company. S...
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish...
Motherhood isn't just about making babies, it's about making lives and molding destinies.
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothe...
my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesadde...
These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.
A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.
It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.
What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?...
There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.
Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's body. Only he wasn't a baby anymore, and how often...
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.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen t...
A father is as much a verb as a mother.
I persist in examining Mumma from all of the angles available to me I will learn. Not learn how to be a good mother to Sarah, who abandoned me on the sidewalk in front of the school building on the fi...
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