Quotes About Maternal

In some countries, as many as 91 percent of women have no one at their side to assist them during labor and delivery.

As I've mentioned before, continuing a pregnancy is 12 to 14 times as potentially fatal as ending it. That means abortion is always potentially lifesaving for a pregnant woman.

Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.

published in 2001, concentrates on tracing our ancestry using the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA, which also features heavily in The Nature of the Beast. Other books focus on the paternally inherited Y-chromosome and the evolution of sex (Adam's Curse, 2003), on genealogy and the genetic history of Britain and Ireland (Blood of the Isles, 2006) and America (DNA USA, 2012).

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality.

I am obsessed with my sisters. Being the oldest, I probably just have that in me. But I also think I am the youngest sometimes. We all have moments when we are the maternal one of the group.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

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

I thanked all the spirits such creatures as Annec existed, whose opponent sole function was the nurturing of others, and that is gave them such pleasure. All you had to do was be weakly grateful for their ministrations, and they puffed up with maternal urges like a sail full of wind.

Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.

I'm too young to have kids, but I really want to be a mom. I don't know if it's a Latin thing, but I love kids.

temblorosa de frío y de verdad, como una madre (de Solaris)

putting at the foot also a bunch of the same flowers in a little jar of water to keep them alive. What matter was it that on the outside of the jar the eye of mere observation noted the words 'Keelwell's Marmalade'? The eye of maternal affection did not see them in its vision of higher things.

we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another....we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Every man is betrayed by his mother.

Jaime vio a su madre avanzar por el corredor, descalza, con el pelo suelto en la espalda, arropada con su bata blanca y notó que no era alta y fuerte como la había visto en su infancia.

de una divinidad incluyente y maternal, conectada a la naturaleza, sinónimo de vida, un proceso eterno de renovación y evolución.

My maternal aunts and uncles, the Barros, were twelve rather eccentric brothers and sisters, though none was hopelessly mad.

Me gusta la idea de una divinidad incluyente y maternal, conectada a la naturaleza, sinónimo de vida, un proceso eterno de renovación y evolución. Mi Diosa es un océano y nosotros somos gotas de agua, pero el océano existe por las gotas que lo forman

Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.