(76 quotes found)
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.”
Mildred B. Vermont
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
Meryl Streep
“When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”
Margaret Sanger
“We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.”
Sameerah Shareef
“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
“Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born”
Margaret Widdemer
“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
“A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot”
Allan Beck
“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.”
Rebecca West
“Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.”
Nicholas Sparks
