Quotes About Maternal

I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.

I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

The maternal instinct is in me.

I have no maternal instincts.

Feeling and talking through the pain--the humiliation of being an unloved child, the anger toward the cold mother, the anxiety of turning into her, the fear of maternal retribution for hating her--became the healing salve. Where therapy was successful, these women came to understand that their mothers, who were unfortunate, inadequate, insecure people, did not have the power to hurt them anymore. If their mothers continued to act destructively, they could walk away from them.

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

Savage mothers eat their children!

I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.

Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.

Something maternal awakened, perhaps, by the physical contact with such lovely young babies? And tonight was a good night, thus I feel correspondingly tender. There will be other bad nights, but remembering the versatile quicksilver shifting of children's moods, I smile with equanimity and do not cherish grudges, as most of us adults do, letting them fester like a cancer. But I let my emotions run on the same forgiving and transient track.

upon, having—as I at least supposed—a life of his own and tastes and habits which had long since diverted him from the maternal side.  If he did

The ass tells you everything about a woman, her character, her temperament, whether she is sanguine, morbid, gay or fickle, whether she is responsive or unresponsive, whether she is maternal or pleasure-loving, whether she is truthful or lying by nature.)

How can she explain to Gustaf that within the magic circle of maternal energy, Irena has never manage to rule over her own life? How can she explain that the constant proximity of the mother would throw her back, into her weakness, her immaturity?

Atâta timp cât nu-i adult, omul continu? s? aspire mult? vreme la unitatea È™i siguranÈ›a acestui univers, împlinit de el în întregime în m?runtaiele mamei, È™i e cuprins de spaima relativit??ii lumii adulte, de care e înghiÈ›it ca o pic?tur? c?zut? într-un ocean al nep?s?rii. C?ci tinerii sunt, de felul lor, moniÈ™ti pasionaÈ›i, mesageri ai absolutului (...).

I've noticed that since I've been pregnant I see babies everywhere. I love talking to them. I never used to really like kids that much. I guess it comes out of you naturally.

I was the kind of kid that always loved babies. I was, you know, four years old, and I would have my baby doll that I would bring with me everywhere and fake breastfeed on the beach and diaper.

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.

Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.