Motherhood Quotes
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On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your child's well-being on every measure you possibly can at every moment. So when your kid is sitting down playing with Legos, intensive motherhood dictates that you should be engaging with him or her somehow, praising, questioning, making it into a learning opportunity. It's not enough to just tell your child, "Do your homework." It's not enough to help with the homework. You go to the school and learn how they do math, so that you can tutor your child in math.
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I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.
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My biggest goal for the future is motherhood.
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New motherhood is such a vulnerable and powerful time, but it's also really hard.
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The big problem with motherhood of girls, it seems to me, is that we're both women.
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...Laura knew the price of motherhood to be pain and responsibility; the reward, love and pride.
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I dig being a mother.
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I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and intelligence of women are uniquely applicable to other realms as well, such as compassionate service and teaching.
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That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.
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Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.
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It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.
