Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
Raising human offspring is an endeavor nothing less than a continued labor of patience, hard work, organization and ongoing adaptation. All of which is unlike that expected of any other living creatur...
(n.) The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.
Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.
What if happiness is a choice?
I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.
What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?...
I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me?
People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up with child? The gentle, smiling ones own the good secret. Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women ar...
These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.
A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.
I have stretch marks on my heart.
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, l...
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...
Generally she kept her head down, but on the occasions she raised it she was treated to the most intimate of panoramic views: the scattered possessions of the three people she had created. Several sma...