264 quotes found
“Are we always to be wantingwhat isn't:the greenest grassaccord and principlemotherhood and career?Yet our age lies to uslike an asp,whispering. "Both.”
“Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.”
“Progress is hardly ever dramatic; in fact, it is usually very slow. As every parent and teacher knows, education is never a matter of ten-step plans or quick formulas, but of faithful commitment to...”
“- It is clear that we have to come down a bit from the high horse of reason on which we enjoy sitting. We have to be simple and take time to think how to make things understandable to the little on...”
“I know less than you thought, but more than you realize.”
“The Mother of God is asked to 'pray zealously to her Son and her God,' and the words of the psalm are put into her mouth:'My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior...”
“(Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever”
“People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making h...”
“Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, ...”
“I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.”
“The phrase "working mother" is redundant.”
“Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.”
“...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.”
“Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.”
“These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.”
“It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love?”
“I definitely havent been in the best place while working on this book, but I can say this much: Where there is pain in this book, it is real pain; where there is anger, it is real anger; where ther...”
“Lavinia has seen this happen, seen how, one day, a girl will raise her head to listen, as if for the first time, to the crying of a child, to the sound of an oar being hauled in, to a man's voice, ...”
“It puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent in women, or did they just learn to shield their personal regrets, to suspend their lives, subsum...”
“...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.”
