(57 quotes found)
“The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.”
Hamilton Wright Mabie
“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”
Tenneva Jordan
“I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood”
Dan Castellaneta
“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”
Erma Bombeck
“Motherhood is priced of God, at price no man may dare to lessen or misunderstand.”
Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson
“The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a other must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.”
“Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's”
George Bernard Shaw
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.”
Mildred B. Vermont
“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.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
“None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life -- motherhood, middle age, etc. -- often influence my subject matter.”
Anne Tyler
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