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Motherhood Quotes
"In a woman's womb another chance to makethe world a better place."
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"Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot."
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"As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity."
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"Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care every soul of the world."
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"I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha."
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"Motherhood is a game you must enter with as much energy, willingness, and happiness as possible."
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"Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers."
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"When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang."
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"Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters-especially their altruism and devotion-I still don't believe in them. For I know the truth. Only one such miracle worker exists who performs magic in my life, seeing to my wants and needs without fail. That queen is my mother. With unwavering faith I believe in her."
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"I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood."
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"Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood."
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"The Mother Thing makes our world."
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"The mother is the child's first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and to trust life. If there is no love in the relationship between the mother and the child, the child learns to distrust himself, to distrust others and to distrust life."
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"Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress."
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"I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words."
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"The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence."
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"We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks."
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"Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit."
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"Mothers are multi-taskers."
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"There is no greater heaven the heart of a loving mother."
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"Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without."
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"Being a mother is not about 'birthing a child into the world.' Rather, it is about repeatedly 'birthing into the child' a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother."
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"Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation."
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"A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life."
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"A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world."
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"The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother."
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"I remind mothers everywhere of the sanctity of your calling. No other can adequately take your place. No responsibility is greater, no obligation more binding than that you rear in love and peace and integrity those whom you have brought into the world."
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"A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids."
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"The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!"
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"Beloved, there is no way to measure the continuing influence of one godly mother."
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"I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know."
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"Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows no one else will."
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"A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling."
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"A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God."
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"(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer."
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"Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of an eye, a mother can see the child again as they were when they were born, when they learned how to walk, as they were at any age-at any time, even when the child is fully grown or a parent themselves."
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"She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink."
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"I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify."
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"It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences."
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"Women's bodies do not give up their babies so easily, and so silently, is the message. The heart will always remember."
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"I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference, ' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.'If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be."
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"So I guess you were hopelessly romantic and easily distracted, a B-plus mother, certainly good enough to get into Matriarchal State University but not quite good enough for St. Mary's College of the Blessed Womb Warriors."
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"There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving motherShe takes care of you when you are still in her womb.She nurtures you after you are born.She hurts when you fall,She celebrates when you make your first steps.She is the only person who genuinely cares about you.She loves you as she loves herself.Her heart is your true paradise.I love you mama."
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"But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it."
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"What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they're small and to be held by them once they've grown tall. It's empty arms a mother dreads."
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"Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be."
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