Quotes with motherhood

  • Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
  • Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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  • Art Linkletter I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Bethenny Frankel In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Caroline Leavitt Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Emma Goldman 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?
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Carre Otis Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Rebecca West Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Barbara Walters Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Robert Browning Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Anne Tyler None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Victoria Billings 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
    American writer
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
    Homeland and Other Stories
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich 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
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Victoria Billings The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
    Victoria Billings
    American writer
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  • Benito Mussolini War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
    Speech to the Chamber of Deputies (28 April 1939), quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 2
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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