#motherhood

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it. ↗

— Victoria Billings

#best #could #fewer #going #happen

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. ↗

— Joan Blades

#given #manifesto #motherhood #mothers #need

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

#about #ago #brash #career #century

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me. ↗

— Edie Falco

#just #kids #me #motherhood #never

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice. ↗

— Susan Chira

#burden #consistent #gift #most #motherhood

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother. ↗

— Joan Chen

#before #did #doing #i #know

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#came #career #comes #had #i

Progress is hardly ever dramatic; in fact, it is usually very slow. As every parent and teacher knows, education is never a matter of ten-step plans or quick formulas, but of faithful commitment to the mundane challenges of daily life: getting up from the sofa to spend time with our children, loving them and disciplining them, becoming involved in their lives at school and, most important, making sure they have a wholesome family life to return to at home. Maybe that is why Jesus teaches us to ask for strength little by little, on a daily basis - "Give us this day our daily bread" - and why he stresses the significance of even the smallest, humblest beginnings: "Wherever two of you agree about anything you ask for, it shall be done for you... For where two or three come together in my name, I shall be with them" (Mt. 18:19-20). ↗

— Johann Christoph Arnold

#education

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#being pregnant #difficult #many #more #motherhood

Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#experience