#mother

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#women #mother

But mothers lie. It's in the job description. ↗

— John Green

#mothers #mother

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#motherhood #women #consciousness

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe. ↗

— Peggy O'Mara

#biological #child #children #instinct #mothering

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#virginity #advice

Every woman is a gift when she becomes a daughter, Every woman is beautiful when she becomes a lover, Every woman is special when she becomes a wife, Every woman is a god when she becomes a Mother ↗

— Vivek Thangaswamy

#motherhood #women #beauty

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. ↗

— Iris Marion Young

#breastfeeding #breasts #children #feminism #motherhood

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#faith #mother-teresa #faith

The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest ways. She sees it directly; I see its shadow. Still, it pulses in my fingertips, feeds on my consciousness. It is a backdrop for each act, each drama of our lives. I have absorbed a sense of what she has suffered, what she has lost, even what her mother endured and handed down. It is my emotional gene map. ↗

— Fern Schumer Chapman

#memoir #memory #mothers #holocaust

My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#artist #creativity #dating #death #family