264 quotes found
“It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.”
“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”
“Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.”
“We must accept the idea that having a male child has a unique social and psychological meaning for a woman. Even women who led the movement to break out the passivity and sublimation of the female ...”
“All human life on the planet is born of woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared by all women and men is that months-long period we spent unfolding inside a womans body. Because ...”
“There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”
“But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in...”
“It is a mother's noble conceit to believe she has the power to take her child's suffering and do it for him.”
“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.”
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”
“Even if i'm setting myself up for failure, I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less ...”
“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're rea...”
“Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from thei...”
“I often must sacrifice my own needs and desires for the purpose of giving my children what they need and modeling for them the depths of Christ's love."...make myself available in the routine tasks...”
“The recent spate of magazines for "parents" (i.e., mothers) bombard the anxiety-induced mothers of America with reassurances that they can (after a $100,000 raise and a personality transplant) prod...”
“Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.”
“If I measure each day by my list, the days are not always very good, but when I look at each day like it is their day too, because it is their day, well, then most days are better. A lot better.”
“Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.”
“Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary.”
“Youll sacrifice for your child in ways you had never imagined. And theyre not exciting and earth shattering ways, either. Theyre small, seemingly insignificant gestures that mean the world to them.”
