Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

Bob Woodward

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Beyonce Knowles

I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.

Edith Wharton

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Deborah Norville

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Carre Otis

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

Barbara Johnson

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Ayelet Waldman

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.

Elizabeth Blackwell

The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should be exclusively applied to those women who carried on this shocking trade seemed to me a horror. It was an utter degradation of what might and should become a noble position for women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

Adrienne Rich

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

Annie Lennox

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

Crystal Eastman

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

Cynthia Nixon

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

Courteney Cox

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

Ann Romney

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

Amanda Peet

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

Angelina Jolie

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Drew Barrymore

I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.

David O. McKay

True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.

Anna Quindlen

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

Anna Quindlen

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

Anna Quindlen

The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.

Betty Friedan

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.

Betty Friedan

Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.

John Eldredge

How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World)

Kelis

Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.

Maggie Smith

Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

Helen Mirren

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.