“ All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 447
“ Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
- 444
“ The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Motherhood has been enormously healthy for her. She's more secure. ”
- Gillian Anderson- Copy
- 261
“ The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it. ”
- Victoria Billings- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. ”
- Meryl Streep- Copy
- 424
“ The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house. ”
- Yogi Berra- Copy
- 87
“ When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. ”
- Leon Blum- Copy
- 2.8K
“ That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet within a month — Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman — A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men. ”
- Joaquin Miller- Copy
- 198
“ At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping, Where He hung, the dying Lord. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.5K
“ And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 579
“ The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 2K
“ If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 1.2K
“ There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. ”
- Samuel Lover- Copy
- 589
“ The pretty and sweet manner of it forced Those waters from me which I would have stopped; But I had not so much of man in me, And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. ”
- Barbara Kingsolver- Copy
- 576
“ Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood. ”
- Victoria Billings- Copy
- 182
“ 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. ”
- Margaret Sanger- Copy
- 1.5K
“ This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets. ”
- Heather Armstrong- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Can women imagine anything finer than to experience centuries and millennia with the beloved husband in a cozy home in reverent attention to the inner workings of creative motherhood? ”
- Curt Rosten- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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