"The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams."
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"One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle."
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"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it."
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"Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love."
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"Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings"
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"The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd."
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"I believe in the Motherhood of God."
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"In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner."
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"So mothers have God's license to be missed."
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"Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being."
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"It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today."
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"Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood."
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"motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power."
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"Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different."
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"I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth."
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"When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when."
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"With my family, I'm trying to raise them to have respect for all people and make friends around the world and feel at home with the world and really live a truly global life because I think it's what forms them and it's really important to me."
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"Most nights, someone ends up in our bed. The kids do knock before entering. We've at least got that part down because mommy and daddy need some space."
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"What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad."
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"That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride."
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