Quotes About Maternal

We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother's blood before she herself is born...

Never underestimate maternal rage.

My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

In the world of maternal health, cell phone technology is being used to provide prenatal care, linking pregnant women to health care providers when they can't otherwise reach healthcare facilities.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

The behaviorist view was that babies—monkey or human—loved their mothers for the milk that they provided, since this satisfied a primary need. But what Harlow had seen with the cloth pads made him wonder whether babies might love their mothers not for their milk only, but because they provided warmth and affection. Perhaps

The study showed that even when the wire mother was the one lactating, the monkeys vastly preferred to be with and have physical contact with the soft-cloth mother.

Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.

Limbic structures generate feelings of pleasure and sexual desire—the emotions that feed sexual passion. But the addition of the neocortex and its connections to the limbic system allowed for the mother-child bond that is the basis of the family unit and the long-term commitment to childrearing that makes human development possible. (Species that have no neocortex, such as reptiles, lack maternal affection; when their young hatch, the newborns must hide to avoid being cannibalized.)

I hated her as I had never hated anyone before—with her easy answers and maternal fussing. I wanted to slap her face, to make her crawl, and then to hold her in my arms and kiss her.

To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her.

Borderline mothers have difficulty allowing their children to grow up. The dependency of a newborn can be intensely satisfying to the borderline mother, but as the child becomes increasingly independent, conflict erupts.

Culture was actually humanity's attempt to extend the womb.

I always wanted to be a mom.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

Her maternal instinct told her that Natasha had too much of something, and that because of this she would not be happy.

Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.

Like many women, my first lip color belonged to my mum. It was bright orange and very fashionable at the time.

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.