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“There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother
She 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.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Until the state or the church takes full responsibility for a newborn, no bill or bible is qualified to even offer suggestions on a woman's right to abortion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Pregnancy = "the slow, difficult, and delightful apprenticeship in attentiveness, gentleness, forgetting oneself. The ability to succeed in this path without masochism and without annihilating one's affective, intellectual, and professional personality - such would seem to be the stakes to be won through guiltless maternity.”
― Julia Kristeva

“Yes, babies in the womb are human beings, but so what?”
― Mary Elizabeth Williams

“I never really grew up until I had kids.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“A world that is safe for mothers is safe for all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“-(...)I should like you to be on the verge of love but not yet quite in it. That's a very nice state of mind, while it lasts.
-But of course, I had already dived over that verge and was swimming away in a blue sea of illusion towards, I supposed, the islands of the blest, but really towards domesticity, maternity and the usual lot of womankind.”
― Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate

“Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says.
"Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.”
― Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore

“The problem is that the media rarely discusses the real reasons behind why women leave their jobs. We hear a lot about the desire to be closer to the children, the love of crafting and gardening, and making food from scratch. But reasons like lack of maternity leave, lack of affordable day care, lack of job training, and unhappiness with the 24/7 work culture-well, those aren't getting very much airtime.”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity

“Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that hen she swore and groaned she really didn't know what she was doing because she was in a kind of twilight sleep.
I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, hen all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor of pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“كان عليّ أن أعيش هذا الاكتئاب لكي أجمع شظايا نفسي من جديد.”
― أليف شافاق

“The newly minted maternal heart, it completely melted into mush, the oxytocin I know now, had kicked in, and how. I would fight tigers barehanded, climb down cliffs, throw myself in the path of a speeding car, and even do calculus again if I needed to, for this child.”
― Kiran Manral, Karmic Kids: The Story of Parenting Nobody Told You

“Mon temps autrefois m'appartenait entièrement, et aux livres. Aujourd'hui, chaque minute consacrée à lire ou à écrire est une minute que je ne passe pas avec ma fille; l'é�������ٳܰ��� s'accompagne désormais d'une hâte et d'une ���ܱ��貹����������é détestables. C'est du temps que je lui dérobe, que je ne retrouverai pas, que j'aurais dû lui consacrer et que je n'aurai jamais passé avec elle. Depuis sa naissance, je me prends à penser au futur antérieur et au conditionnel passé, des temps compliqués qui sont le signe qu'on considère les choses sous un point de vue autre que celui depuis lequel on parle normalement : demain vu au passé, hier comme une possibilité.
Elle dort. Je devrais profiter de ce moment pour écrire, je n'arrive qu'à m'abîmer dans le bruit des vagues. Je voudrais m'étendre sur le sable, rester là jusqu'à la nuit, me laisser emporter par la marée.”
― Dominique Fortier

“A mom empowered is a world empowered.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“She was also taking a big risk by hoping this sacrifice would mean something. If Rob turned out like any other rough boy in the neighborhood––if her son wasn't special like she believed he was––she feared the disappointment that would follow too much striving on her part.”
― Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

“En ocasiones, los padres compiten con sus hijos y los humillan por envidia y los humillan tanto que los anulan.
Martín Ross. El Mapa de la Autoestima.”
― Violet Florence Martin, El Mapa de la Autoestima

“Prayer is the maternity where ideas are born.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“Fathers are essentially different from mothers because we were all once in our mother's bodies, are born out of those bodies, and as infants take food from them. Paternity is more distant and less direct than maternity; it's a claim we accept as children, one inscribed in our legitimate, that is, legal, names.”
― Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays

“Can I go back and be pregnant again just so I can have the information in this book to guide me? Maybe I can convince my husband to have #7�� PREGNANCY, OMG! is equal parts informative, beautiful, and everything every mother must know.” —��”
― Jasinda Wilder

“As a practicing OB-GYN for the past twenty-five years, I’ve heard the concerns of thousands of pregnant women, not to mention having dealt with the personal challenges of my own three pregnancies. Still, I must admit: even I learned a few things reading PREGNANCY, OMG!!”��”
― Sherry A. Ross, MD, author of she-ology

“Choisir sereinement de laisser la vie décider.”
― Isabelle TILMANT, Une Vie sans Enfant. Un Bonheur est Possible

“Ayrılmak, kişinin ruhsal yatırımının sürdüğü bir insanın kaybını göze alabilmesidir. O yüzden, her ayrılma bir "yas" oluşturur. Dolayısıyla anne çocuk ilişkisi de bir bakıma bir başlangıçlar ve bitişler silsilesidir. "Bir şeyden vazgeçmek ve onun yerine başka bir şey koymak" aslında hayatın temel döngüsüdür. Bu döngüye girilememesi, kişinin ruhen bebek/çocuk kalması anlamına gelir.”
― Erdoğan Çalak, 7/24 Annelik

“In good times, when material resources are abundant and women have plentiful social support, maternal negativity has little place in the lives of women. However, in times of scarcity and/or when women are unsupported, negative feelings can emerge to color the emotional palette and behavior of mothers.”
― Riadh Abed, Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

“Again and again, we see how cultures and religions frame women’s sexuality as both powerful and dangerous, and as something that must be kept under control.”
― Malcolm Potts, Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World

“…the male desire to control women’s sexual activity can be traced to efforts to ensure paternity. This impulse lurks behind even the most extreme or bizarre expressions of religious obsession, misogyny, and sexual repression.”
― Malcolm Potts, Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World

“What is more important than sex is maternity.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Men with mortal wounds did not worry him like a woman in labor.”
― David Ball, Empires of Sand by David Ball

“You will sever your connection with Wellwood House the instant you walk out our front door. That is the gift we offer you. If you obey me in all matters, when your time here is over and your crisis has passed, it will be as if this never happened.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that washed over her. She thought of her entry into this world, the 'harami' child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Miriam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad. This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate beginnings.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns