motherhood

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

We must accept the idea that having a male child has a unique social and psychological meaning for a woman. Even women who led the movement to break out the passivity and sublimation of the female role were deeply influenced by the belief in superior masculine power.

Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of making disciples of all nations.

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do somethingfor our children'.

Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.

It__ the angle. You can__ see me from where you__e standing.

When the last woman dies, the last man dies!

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You hear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs upon the reasons they are dying.

Only you can know what's true for you. I'll help you get there.

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

(Georgie) Two hundred years later and it's exactly the same thing. You want to spend every single moment with your children and still have a fulfilling life at work.

Prioritise self-care & incorporate a MINIMUM of 60 mins 'ME TIME' into your daily routine. YES THERE ARE enough hours in the day. NO EXCUSES.

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

Mama Ginger came calling, to set the alarm on my biological clock. Oh, and to remind me that there__ no point to me being a woman if I never have children.___ell, if that__ true, I wasted a hell of a lot of money on panty hose and lipstick._ Jettie snorted.

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.

The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people that won't support national condom distribution that PREVENTS teenage pregnancy.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.