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“There is a world of difference between the experience of 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basic biological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us want to live.”

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Book:Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution

Source: Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution

“Study mothers, you'll understand ecology.”

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Book:Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“A mom empowered is a world empowered.”

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Book:High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Now I know. If God himself stood before me and said, "Give me that child, that I might slaughter him," I would tell him, "BITE ME!”

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Book:Waking Up Naked in Strange Places

Source: Waking Up Naked in Strange Places

“It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.”

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Author:Holland Taylor

“If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.”

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Author:Nancy Friday

“Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.”

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Book:The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story

Source: The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story

“When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.”

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Author:Agnetha Faltskog

“Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy