Adrienne Rich Quotes, Children Quotes, Motherhood Quotes

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

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The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

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The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

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What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

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Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

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

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Motherhood changes everything.

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Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.

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One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

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ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

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The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

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Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

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How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? 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. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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