“ Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle… Margaret Atwood
“ Mothering your man is not sexy for you or for him. If you want your man to "start being a man", start being his lover not his mother. Miya Yamanouchi
“ When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I reali… Rebecca Solnit
“ What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. Barbara Delinsky
“ Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment… Peggy O'Mara
“ Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying to correct them in the moment. Mommy Moo Moo
“ Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the day I became a mother. Efrat Cybulkiewicz
“ She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~ Susan Wiggs
“ Birth is vast and multifaceted; radiant and mysterious. Birth contains multitudes, and through her we birth our multitudes. We give birth to our hopes and our fears, to our ecstasies and our agonies,… Sarah Buckley
