Famous Quotes - Tags - Motherhood

  • ... if women once learn to be something themselves, that the only way to teach is to be fine and... More
  • ... married women work and neglect their children because the duties of the homemaker become so... More
  • ... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of... More
  • ... woman is frequently praised as the more “creative” sex. She does not need to make poems,... More
  • ... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt... More
  • A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, “Women have never produced... More
  • A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. More
  • As motherhood as a “private enterprise” declines and more mothers rely on the work of... More
  • Borrow a child and get on welfare.
    Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the... More
  • Child, the current of your breath is six days long.
    You lie, a small knuckle on my white... More
  • Every member of the family of the future will be a producer of some kind and in some degree. The... More
  • Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman’s individual entity and... More
  • Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood... More
  • I am not a suffragist, nor do I believe in “careers” for women, especially a “career” in... More
  • I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You start back... More
  • I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times. More
  • I kiss my wailing child and press it to my breast,
    And hear the narrow graves calling my... More
  • I lay upon my baby;
    Ye little childer dear,
    I looked on my cold baby
    When the morn... More
  • I really don’t think this war will end soon. We are completely aware of the difficulties, no... More
  • I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
    Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
    And... More
  • I sprang not more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child
    than now in first seeing he had... More
  • I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal... More
  • I will cut the head off my baby and swallow it if it will make Bush lose. More
  • If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it’s false and useless. More
  • If the vice president thinks it’s disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he... More
  • If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. More
  • In a free country the national life stands in direct relation to the home life, the public life... More
  • It is ... to my three children [that] I owe my very being. In attempting to fulfill my duty to... More
  • It is as absurd to say that [due to motherhood] all women shall be denied the suffrage, as it... More
  • Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save... More
  • My generation was ... haunted by Dr. Freud’s psychoanalysis, which ... had become the latest... More
  • My mother dandled me and sang,
    “How young it is, how young!”
    And made a golden... More
  • Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
    had she not seemed so herself. More
  • Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a... More
  • Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far- reaching... More
  • Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest... More
  • So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral... More
  • That was the most horrible day of my detention. The whole day I could see my baby’s face and... More
  • The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after... More
  • The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the... More
  • The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that... More
  • These hearings take place on the eve of Mother’s Day, a ritual observance which celebrates not... More
  • Thou hast never in thy life
    Showed thy dear mother any courtesy,
    When she, poor hen, fond... More
  • We want Sarajevo to stay alive. We will shoot at them each year with one child. Whatever they do,... More
  • When I first got here, every time you’d say “breast feeding” on the House floor there would... More
  • When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and... More
  • Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged,... More
  • With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary... More

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