Motherhood Quotes - Page 3

It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy the things that are desirable in our culture. So the degradation of motherhood - the sense that motherhood isn't itself a calling - also arises from economic pressure.

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

I am consumed, or I have been consumed, with these issues of motherhood and the way we act out societal expectations and roles. So both my nonfiction and my fiction have been pretty much exclusively about that.

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.

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

After I had my daughter, I kind of got comfortable with motherhood and had time to focus on something else then I started "Sailing Souls" with Fisticuffs, who produced the majority of the mixtape. I just wanted to put out something, like it wasnt really for, you know exposure or to get a deal or really anything like that.

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

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.

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.