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I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.
My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it.
Til marriage and motherhood happened, I was devoted to my work. I didn't see anything beyond it.
Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.
So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they don't tell the truth!
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
I didn't wander into motherhood or nonmotherhood unconsciously, recklessly. I gave it due consideration.
At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.
A lot of women wrote to me. Some wrote me long letters on the meaning of the circle and about mythology and about motherhood and the significance or the symbolism of the mermaid and the frogs and the turtles.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world.
And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.
There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.
I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.
I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.
Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.
That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.
I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.
Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone.
Motherhood has become a battleground on which prejudice and class resentment can be waged without ever admitting that's what we're doing.
A lot of my friends aren't parents. I find this culture of all-consuming motherhood so oppressive. Not that I don't like to talk about my kids, but if I'm socializing, I don't want to talk about Montessori versus Waldorf.
I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest, and I helped raise all of my younger sisters. I just fall into that aspect - that motherhood - naturally.
I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom. I came up with an idea for a story about motherhood that I would want to read.
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.
Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.
There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.
The noble position of motherhood aside, our general opinion about women is that, while taking into account their specific needs, it should be made possible for them to take on every role, including the jobs of physician, military officer, judge and president of a country.
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.
New motherhood is such a vulnerable and powerful time, but it's also really hard.
I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.
I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.'
The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.
Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches!
Because there is less female storytelling, especially motherhood storytelling, there has been immense pressure on my storytelling to represent more people, and to do so in a sort of unrealistic way.
There's so much dishonesty with motherhood in general... The truth is it's just a lot of embarrassing, humiliating moments.
I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.
Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.
In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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 was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.
I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be.
There's a motherhood penalty because we've been long taught things that are stigmatized about motherhood. As workers, we don't want to talk about our kids at work. We're afraid to, or that when we leave at 5:30 to relieve the sitter we're somehow going to be diminished.
Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.
I love being a mom and having two kids. But I've had two C-sections, and I have suffered enough. That's my favourite mantra when it comes to motherhood.
I've seen many female comics that a lot of people haven't heard of who are so funny, and I saw them come up, and they were working so hard, and then all of a sudden they had a baby, and they just got tied up in motherhood, and eventually, they kind of just stopped doing stand-up, and I thought it was such a shame.
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