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“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.”

“Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.”

Trying Mother Existence Opinion Baby Stranger Crush Public Opinion Unnatural Spiritualism Unwelcome

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim to own a teenager.”

Said Mother Baby Civilization Claims Teenager Adolescence

Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.”

Sometimes Mother Prayer Baby Mouths Fingers Hunger Starving Thrust Like A Mother

Author:I. L. Peretz

“What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!”

Want Said Different Mother Baby Bird Cat Adversity Lays Neighbor Eggs Bad Things Nests Jerry Esther

Author:Esther Hicks

“It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldn't the care of babies and children be thought of that way too?”

Knows Way Wells Children Care Jobs Lasts Mother Easy Baby Boring Frustration

Author:Donald Woods Winnicott

“Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.”

“Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if they happen to be with friends, because to greet or be greeted by their mothers in the presence of peers is to acknowledge having been (and perhaps still being) a baby.”

Ifs Children Stills Happens Mother Sides Streets Baby Crosses Eight Nine Acknowledge Peers

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'”

Ifs Needs Giving Children I Can Mother Hate Cry Baby Letters Hungry My Children Breasts Feds Milk Starving Sierra Sierra Leone Weaning

Author:Salma Hayek

“Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!”

Knows Hard Mother Worry Baby Chaos Relax Relaxed Having A Baby

Author:Salma Hayek

“I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.”

Way Feels Children Littles Helping Mother Strong Baby Bed Connections Raises Devices Distraction Equipment

Author:Milla Jovovich

“The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.”

Believe Wells Stills Mother Baby Birth Pregnant I Still Believe Birth Mother

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said 'Grab the blade!”

World Said Mother Turns Fans Baby Leaving Folks Hospitals Electric Blades Turn Off

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies whose mothers lived near crops when certain pesticides were sprayed. The largest risks were found among pregnant women exposed during the critical first trimester and among those who lived in the same square mile where pesticides were used.”

Source: Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

“The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection. For example, throughout history, infections like “childbirth fever” claimed the lives of many innocent mothers and babies. Yet the Old Testament had the correct principles for the handling of infected patients, written more than 3,000 years ago! Many people perished because man’s quest for knowledge had failed to heed the word of the Lord!”

“A lot of people are talking about defunding planned parenthood, as if that's a huge game changer. I think it's time to do something even more bold. I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception.”

“I'm the only one to separate siamese twins.The only one to operate on babies while they were still in mother's womb, the only one to take out half of a brain.But I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation.”

Children Stills Mother Fighting Next Brain Half Generations Willing Baby Picks Our Children Hopeful Twins Womb Next Generation Baton

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.”

Needs Care Mother Father Careers Taken Baby Motherhood Memorable

Author:Amy Heckerling

“There are a lot of very fine upstanding gays who are good citizens and all that. I am not making a decision for individual people. But when it comes to a societal policy, I think there are not enough babies for adoption to go around. I think a preference should be given to families with a mother and father who have a lifetime commitment.”

“I've never told anyone this, in an effort to run from my past and disguise it, I got rid of all of the scrapbooks my mother kept going back to when I was a baby. Truly. So that's why whenever talk show hosts or a producer asks for these pictures, there are barely any. My sister had a few, but that's it, and this was before digital. I've never told anyone that, but that's the truth.”

Shows Running Past Mother Asks Effort Baby Producers Digital Host My Sister Disguise My Past Talk Shows

Author:Tim Gunn

“I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.”

Years Children Persons Hands Young Mother Baby Balls Busy Phones Pity Cells Holding On Cell Phone Texting Best Year Triviality Artefacts

Author:Mario Bunge

“Nobody is excused from the excellence trend. Babies are not excused. Starting right after they get out of the womb, modern babies are exposed to instructional flashcards designed to make them the best babies they can possibly be, so they can get into today's competitive preschools. Your eighties baby sees so many flashcards that he never gets an unobstructed view of his parents' faces. As an adult, he'll carry around a little wallet card that says "7x9=63," because it will remind him of mother.”

Children Littles Humor Kids Today Funny Faces Mother Parent Views Modern Baby Humorous Adults Excellence Starting Cards Trends Exposed Womb Eighty Wallets

Author:Dave Barry

“I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee like he's their mother: "Wah! Did you see what he did?" Then they get back to playing soccer again.”

Trying Mother Guy Fall Cry Baby Soccer Get Back Referee Playing Soccer

Author:Pablo Francisco

“Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.”

Earth Mother Baby Viola Babyhood

Book:Poems of Francis Thompson

Source: Poems of Francis Thompson

“99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.”

Faces Mother Baby Definitions Defined Cents Arbitrary Recognise

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.”

Thinking Kind Matter Kids Mother Baby

Author:Molly Ringwald

“My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.”

Ifs Years Littles Mother Found Baby Letters Take Me Orphanage

Author:Kristen Stewart

“When a mother has a baby, she should stay home with that baby.”

Should Home Mother Baby

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.”

Years Mean Children Doe Home Today Mother Causes Inspiring Generations Baby Years Ago Our Children Guilt Raised Staying Mothers Day Love Our Children Guilt Trip Baby Boom Full Time Mother

Author:Jane Pauley

“Trust grows when babies and mothers establish that they can find each other again after the inevitable moments of losing touch. It is not the goodness of the mother or the relationship per se that is the basis for trust; it is the ability of mother and baby together to repair the breaks in their relationship that builds a safe house for love.”

Moments Together Mother House Grows Ability Break Baby Safe Goodness Losing Bases Inevitable Mother And Baby

Author:Carol Gilligan

“There was a woman on the radio the other day who had wrote a book about how difficult it was in meetings once you're a working mother. She was like "Oh, You have baby sick on your business suit". Most people don't have a bloody business suit!!!”

People Book Mother Difficult Baby Sick Meetings Radio Suits Bloody

Author:Alice Nutter

“I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.”

“When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being able to take a shower. 'Mobility' means being able to reach the glass of water on the dresser while not breaking the baby's suction on the breast. 'Flexibility' means being able to push the Record function on the VCR without dropping the baby.”

Mean Home Able Mother Water Records Baby Function Glasses Breasts Coming Home Concrete Showers Abstraction Flexibility Dropping Mobility New Baby Dressers Vcr

Author:Marni Jackson

“Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.”

Hard Mother Memories Healing Careers Happened Baby Majors Motherhood Driving Eighty Reconciliation Having A Baby Reclamation

Book:Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey

Source: Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey

“The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.”

Giving Feels Has Beens Happens Mother Interesting Baby Birth Miracle Giving Birth Mother And Baby

Author:Rachel Weisz

“I'm a huge advocate of prayer. I've been praying since I was fifteen years old and the doctor told me I was going to be a mother and I was like "what?" I started praying that day that God would help me do what I needed to do to be a good mother and to raise this baby boy that I was going to be blessed with. I haven't stopped praying in years.”

Years Helping Mother Prayer Boys Havens Huge Baby Praying Needed Doctors Raises Blessed Help Me Fifteen Fifteen Years Being Blessed Good Mother Baby Boy Fifteen Years Old

Author:Cathy Hughes

“The black and white lemur, the one that relaxes on that branch, they actually have day care, like kindergartens; where all the mothers come together and they put all the babies into this one nest and they let dad watch it while they go out and have food and have a good time and then they come back in a few hours. We've never seen that in other primates.”

Care Together Mother Black Hours White Watches Baby Dad Branches Relax Good Times Black And White Nests Having A Good Time Kindergarten Primates Day Care

Author:Patricia Wright

“The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.”

Funny Mother Worst Baby Mom Singing Uplifting Features Pregnancy Baby Boy Funny Parent New Baby Funny Mothers Day Funny Mother New Baby Boy My Baby Boy Cute Baby Boy Mother And Baby

Author:Kin Hubbard

“When I was a child and I was upset about something, my mother was not capable of containing that emotion, of letting me be upset but reassuring me, of just being with me in a calming way. She always got in a flap, so I not only had my own baby panics, fears and terrors to deal with, but I had to cope with hers, too. Eventually I taught myself to remain calm when I was panicked, in order not to upset her. In a way, she had managed to put me in charge of her. At 18 months old, I was doing the parenting.”

Way Children Mother Order My Own Deals Emotion Taught Baby Months Capable Calm Terror Upset Panic Just Being Containing Calming Reassuring

Author:John Cleese

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

Source: Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)

“The all-pervading energy source of existence or Shakti manifests itself as creation. Shakti is the divine mother who gives birth to and nurtures the newborn-whether it is a newborn babies a brand new relationship, a fresh idea, or a magical manifestation. Although Shakti is beyond the boundaries of gender, form or color, we call It Mother because of its mothering and creative qualities.”

“I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It's nice, the pace of being pregnant; it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you're gonna be.”

Giving Firsts Long Mother Courses Nice Baby Months Long Time Pace Pregnant Being Pregnant

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.”

People Littles Lasts Mother Stars Born Rooms Middle Rocks Baby Grew Walking Grew Up Rock N Roll Rock Star Living Room Hendrix Promoters

Author:Ari Up

“It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs threaten innocent lives, or in angry prisons, where only the fit survive, but in the womb of a mother who is being told that if she doesn't really want the baby, an abortion is the solution.”

Ifs Want America Mother Cities Dangerous Baby Fit Solutions Angry Prison Innocent Abortion Womb Gang Inner City Dangerous Places Innocent Life

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father, then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home.”

Ifs Littles Two Home Mother Father Hours Dark Feet Baby Months Fit Female Blind Lays Weather Eggs Coming Home Emperor Two Months Having A Baby Penguins Egg Rolls

Author:L. M. Boyd

“The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?”

Feels Firsts Made Beautiful Mother Mines Baby Gathering Herbs Salad Like A Mother Radishes

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“I've seen women who were nightmare party girls, who were just crazy, and then they have a baby and this thing comes over them and changes them. Or there are women who you think are going to be the most doting mother in the world, and then they're not. You don't know how you'll be affected, when that happens.”

Thinking Knows World Happens Mother Girl Party Know How Crazy Baby Nightmare Affected Party Girl

Author:Ivana Milicevic

“I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.”

Firsts Mother Laughing Baby Contests

Author:Phyllis Diller

“When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets... I thought she'd been bitten by a Great Dane.”

Said Mother Next Week Dog Baby Birth Block Next Week Triplet Rabies

Author:Woody Allen

“And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking..."yeah, that's coming down."”

Thinking I Can Remember Mother Baby Yeah Mobile Paranoid

Author:Dennis Miller

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