Quotes About Motherhood

En las conversaciones con mis hijas oigo palabras o frases no pronunciadas. Ellas a veces se enojan, me dicen mamá, yo no lo he dicho, lo estás diciendo tú, te lo has inventado. Pero no invento nada, me basta con escuchar, lo no dicho es más elocuente que lo dicho.

Quale sarebbe il crimine?». «Lo sperpero di intelligenza. Una comunità che trova naturale soffocare con la cura dei figli e della casa tante energie intellettuali di donne, è nemica di se stessa e non se ne accorge».

Vi imagens rápidas e apagadas na minha cabeça, frase inteiras pronunciadas rapidamente, um sussurro. Me dei conta de que não vinham corretamente os tempos verbais, culpa daquele despertar desordenado. O tempo é um respiro, pensei, hoje sou eu, daqui a pouco minha filha, tinha acontecido com a minha mãe, com todas as minhas antepassadas, talvez ainda acontecesse a elas — a elas e a mim, simultaneamente, acontecerá.

When the baby emerged and I saw her, black-haired, a violet organism that, full of energy, writhed and wailed, I felt a physical pleasure so piercing that I still know no other pleasure that compares to it

ci comunicava così un amore devotissimo, era evidente che gli piaceva ricordare a se stesso e agli altri la straordinarietà della sua donna, mentre mio marito non mi lodava mai, anzi mi riduceva a madre dei suoi figli, voleva che pur avendo studiato non fossi capace di pensiero autonomo, mi umiliava umiliando ciò che leggevo, ciò che m'interessava, ciò che dicevo, e pareva disposto ad amarmi solo a patto di dimostrare di continuo la mia nullità.

Soon she'll start yelling, I thought, soon she'll hit her, trying to break that bond. Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements.

She was suggesting that I separate also from my third child. She seemed to be saying: Imma would be better off and so would you. I replied: If Imma leaves me, too, my life will no longer have meaning. But she smiled: Where is it written that lives should have meaning?

Questo distratto inseminare dei maschi, storditi dal piacere. Ci fecondano sopraffatti dal loro orgasmo. Si affacciano dentro di noi e si ritraggono lasciandoci, celato nella carne, il loro fantasma come un oggetto smarrito. Albertino era figlio della volontà, dell'attenzione? O anche lui era in braccio a questa donna-madre senza che Nino sentisse di averci a che fare?

Suurin osa äideistä suhtautui kalseasti vapaana juokseviin koiriin. He siirsivät muut ahdistuksenaiheensa eläimiin.

2007), and The Lost Daughter

Na druhou stranu jsem v sobÄ› nechtÄ›la nebo nedokázala nechat zakoÃ…â"¢enit nikoho. Za ?as pÃ…â"¢ijdu i o možnost mít dÄ›ti. Žádná lidská bytost se ode mÄ› neodtrhne s dÄ›sem, s nímž jsem se já odtrhla od svojí mámy jen proto, že se mi nikdy nepodaÃ…â"¢ilo se k ní pÃ…â"¢imknout definitivnÄ›.

Es war eine wundervolle Erfahrung«, sagte ich zu ihr. »Was denn?« »Die Schwangerschaft, die Geburt. Adele ist bildschön und so lieb.« Sie antwortete: »Jeder erzählt sich das Leben so, wie es ihm gefällt.

Uma comunidade que acha natural sufocar com o cuidado dos filhos e da casa tantas energias intelectuais femininas é inimiga de si mesma e não se dá conta.

my mother, before she became my mother, was followed by the man with whom she would make love, who would cover her with his name, who would annihilate her with his alphabet.

Come soffrivo per lei e per me, come mi vergognavo di essere uscita dalla sua pancia di persona scontenta.

perfectly happy momma goes out into the fields. she eavesdrops on herself, in case somewhere deep inside a melody rings out or a blackbird sings, but all that she hears, is only the cancer, which saws and eats away at her.

when paula asks one of the women, what she would like, then she would like something for the whole family, for example, a car, in which then the whole family sits, and in which the mother is forever waiting to get a chance to smack the child's fingers, to be able to justify her own presence.

Just think," he said. "What would your mother say?" Tears welled to my eyes. My mother would be sorry for me.

Juli's mother, a beautician, was very thin, with unusually bright eyes. For dinner she made a soup called "boy-catching soup" and a cake called "mother-in-law cake." These two dishes seemed to sum up a whole worldview of entrapment and placation.

the phrase "stay-at-home mom" is patronizing and faintly derogatory, like "stick-in-the-mud mom" or "sit-in-the-corner mom." Do we talk about a "chained-to-the-desk mom" or a "stuck-in-traffic mom" or a "languishing-in-meetings mom"?

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

A child who is very close to own father is likely to grow up as a better person for the nation and the world than a kid who is too close to own mother.

The best way to celebrate The Mother's Day is to appreciate only Mother Nature not the nature of mother; as there are many examples witnessed of the married woman who are not caring in attitude & behaviour towards their children and ,sometimes, even of not being of good character.