Quotes About Motherhood

This construct of the licentious temptress served to justify white men's sexual abuse of Black women. The stereotype of Black women as sexually promiscuous also defined them as bad mothers. The

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother

In Chapter 1, I describe the exploitation of slave women's capacity to produce more slaves and the denial of their rights as mothers. After Emancipation, racism continued to corrupt notions of reproductive liberty, helping to direct the birth control movement which emerged early in this century.

Love is not a real-world limit: the mother of nine children can love each of them as much as the mother of an only child.

Second-wave feminist rhetoric placed blame for the female condition entirely on men, or specifically on "patriarchy" . . . The exclusive focus of feminism was on an external social mechanism that had to be smashed or reformed. It failed to take into account women's intricate connection with nature – that is, with procreation.' Or why, 'in this era of the career woman, there has been a denigration, or devaluing of the role of motherhood.

Did you know that there are places in the world where women can just drop the child in the field, and go on with the harvest? What does that suggest to you?" "Third world? Grinding poverty? Gross infant mortality rates?" Bradford guessed.

Im urgin all daughters to kiss their mothers with those lips that all that lipstick covers. You never too grown up to miss and hug her.

I was in a very free state in my life. This is something I struggle with as a mom because now that I have grown up, I couldn't feel more passionate about being appropriate. Everything in my world is about being "appropriate." People ask me, what are you going to tell your daughters about some parts of your life? I don't want to have to lie, but I am much more invested in telling them how I found my values.

I am strong. I have learned. I love Love and have plenty to give. It is my powerful destiny that I am supposed to raise two good girls into two great women! All right. Here we go, my beautiful little girls. Here we go.

Como feministas tenemos que reivindicar que tenemos derechos , no porque seamos madres sino porque somos personas.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breastfeed.

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

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

The most important job in life is being a mom.

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

I gave life, and that is beautiful.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

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

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

I spent a lifetime being small for those closest to me but this is not the woman my son will know

But I wanted to figure out how to be a mom without having to figure out how to be a professional on top of it.

I saw all my new mom friends go through a sadness other than postpartum depression: it is grieving the loss of your old self, of who you used to be.