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“I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of women are uniquely applicable to other realms as well, such as compassionate service and teaching.”

Knows Wells Mother Virtue Teaching Honor Motherhood Realms Compassionate

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.”

Children Soul Forget Sacred Privilege Motherhood Never Forget Vocation Commonplace Humbling Sculpting

Author:Ann Voskamp

“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.”

Reality Mother Pay Family Mom Glory My Mom Motherhood Mum Mothers Day Mothering Happy Mothers Day Best Mother Mother Proverbs Inspirational Motherhood Just A Mom

Book:My Life (Revised and Updated)

Source: My Life (Revised and Updated)

“The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.”

Needs Mother Purpose Given Parent Ability Motherhood Manifestos

Author:Joan Blades

“I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.”

Thinking Mother Values Inspiring Fiction Motherhood Dozen Mothers Day Abusive

Book:Death in Summer

Source: Death in Summer

“The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.”

Mother Suffering Forgiveness Ideals India Forgiving Motherhood Womanhood Unselfish Marvellous

Book:Awakened India

Source: Awakened India

“All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was a condition. It never computed. And there he was. Everyone made fun of me because I stared at him for months and months, not being able to believe he was real.”

Firsts Believe Made Real Able Fun Saws Conditions Months Birth Motherhood Pregnancy

Author:Meg Ryan

“True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.”

World Looks States Church United Practice United States Birth Sorrow Motherhood Tendencies Birth Control

Author:David O. McKay

“The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.”

Progress Prosperity Motherhood Statements

Author:S. R. Nathan

“There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.”

Thinking Knows Play Mother My Own Study Motherhood Theoretical

Author:Joan Chen

“I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.”

World Want Fall Motherhood Falling Down Apathetic

Author:Cass Elliot

“The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.”

Advice Burden Motherhood Consistent

Author:Susan Chira

“I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.”

Thinking Term Leadership Responsibility Greater Morality Motherhood

Author:Norman Lear

“Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.”

Play Government Literature Cases Study Morality Models Motherhood Dramatic Branches Interaction Watergate Branches Of Government Case Studies

Author:Bob Woodward

“The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.”

Men America Young Leader Morality Integrity Training Standards Men And Women Train Motherhood Young Man Institute Leadership Training High Standards

Author:Michael C. Burgess

“Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.”

Mean Doe Soul Philosophy Practice Produce Morality Motherhood Serenity Restriction Utility

Author:Karl Jaspers

“If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.”

Ifs World Consciousness Morality Conscious Motherhood

Author:Roger Penrose

“Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.”

People Giving Littles Land Morality Give Me Property Motherhood

Author:Maria Edgeworth

“One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.”

Philosophy Morality Motherhood

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.”

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed”

Children Joy Mother Bed Motherhood Joys Of Motherhood

Author:Barbara Johnson

“Women wear many hats in their lives. Daughter, sister, student, breadwinner. But no matter where we are or what we’re doing, one hat that moms never take off is the crown of motherhood. There is no crown more glorious.”

Matter Students Mom Daughter Motherhood Glorious Hats Crowns Breadwinner

Author:Ann Romney

“I always thought my mother was so damn cute!”

Mother Motherhood Cute Damn

Author:Kate Hudson

“The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

Mother Lessons Angel Motherhood Knees My Angel

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.”

Jobs Mother Careers Mom Motherhood Hardest Being A Mom Hardest Job

Author:Sandy Duncan

“Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.”

People Country Mother Generations Motherhood Wit Collectives Homely Collective Wisdom Mother Wit

Author:Maya Angelou

“Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.”

Children Mother Wish Healthy My Family Motherhood My Children My Wish

Author:Angelina Jolie

“So mothers have God's license to be missed.”

Mother Motherhood License

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.”

Men Mother Greater He Man Poet Motherhood Be A Man

Book:The poems of Walt Whitman

Source: The poems of Walt Whitman

“Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.”

Heart Mother Daughter Motherhood My Daughter

Author:Kim Basinger

“When I woke up this morning, I found I'd turned into my mother.”

Mother Found Morning Motherhood

Book:Freaky Friday

Source: Freaky Friday

“It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.”

Mother Highest Ideals Motherhood Knees Acquire Truest

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.”

Children Wanted Realizing Angry Motherhood

Author:Cokie Roberts

“No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.”

Writing Stories Mother Song Names Bears Motherhood

Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use

“No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.”

Thinking Way Inspirational Doe Mother Motherhood

Book:Letters to My Daughters

Source: Letters to My Daughters

“I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.”

Thinking Mind Persons Made Different Body Spirit Motherhood Mind Body Mind Body And Spirit

Author:Nelly Furtado

“When a baby first looks at you...when it laughs that deep, unselfconscious gurgle; or when it cries and you pick it up and it clings sobbing to you...then you are-happy is not the precise word-filled.”

Firsts Looks Laughing Cry Baby Picks Filled Motherhood Precise Sobbing

Author:Marilyn French

“Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.”

Products Circumstances Photography Cat Photographer Motherhood Beach Cute Arrangements Cute Cat

Author:Walker Evans

“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.”

Mother Pay Moral Careers Century Humorous Feminist Motherhood Ladders Being A Mom Pedestal Shrinking Brash

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.”

Children Essence Motherhood Who We Are

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.”

“Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.”

“Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.”

Happens Wanted Motherhood Never Quit

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful.”

Ifs Want Kind Persons Kids Parent Taught Mom Mindfulness Instinct Motherhood I've Learned Screws Being A Mom Screw You Be The Kind Of Woman

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.”

People Mother Destiny Creating Motherhood Guides Warrior Native American

Book:Land of the Spotted Eagle

Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle

“Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.”

People Accepting Position Concepts Feminist Motherhood Defined Offensive Women In Society

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Men are what their mothers made them.”

“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.”

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