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Maternal behavior helps when you have to be patient with nonverbal creatures. -- Jane Goodall
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Oh Man! Maternal love is a bitch. It takes a woman in its grip at the most unexpected moments. ~ Ananya Mehta -- Kirtida Gautam
Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute. -- Jessica Capshaw
Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss, Gives and receives all bliss,-- fullest when most Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity, Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God! O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink! -- Robert Pollok
Maternal mortality health is a very sensitive indicator. All you need to look at is a country's maternal mortality rate. That is a surrogate for whether the country's health system is functioning. If it works for women, I'm sure it will work for men. -- Margaret Chan
I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine ... -- Walt Whitman
Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs. -- Elisabetta Canalis
Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor. -- Noel Coward
I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret. -- Ayelet Waldman
No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal. -- Megan Fox
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. -- Harry A. Blackmun
You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. -- Hillary Clinton
My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies. -- Jessica Valenti
I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me. -- Hillary Clinton
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy. -- Esther Duflo
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!' -- Ralph Fiennes
The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. -- Paul Farmer
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. -- Aravind Adiga
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. -- Felicity Huffman
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. -- Paul Farmer
I think a beautiful quality that's a biological, hormonal imperative for women, whether they have children or not, is that we're built to be empathic. For me, it was finally being maternal in an appropriate way instead of trying to mommy ex-boyfriends. -- Alanis Morissette
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility. -- Rose George
I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23. -- Gloria Estefan
I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow. -- Agnetha Faltskog
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac. -- Umberto Eco
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. -- Steve Carell
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother. -- Al Pacino
We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way. -- Hillary Clinton
To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. -- Malcolm Turnbull
I've never been particularly maternal. -- Clare Balding
I can be maternal with my friends. -- Audrey Tautou
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help... -- Edith Stein
O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep! -- Edgar Lee Masters
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. -- Helen Mirren
I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me. -- Malaika Arora Khan
I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element. -- Greg Bryk
The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar. -- Gregory Maguire
If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human. -- Mary Beard
I'm a Cancer, which means I'm maternal and emotional. So in relationships I'm screwed. -- Lindsay Lohan
Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile. -- Chris Hardwick
It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now. -- Holland Taylor
Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet -- Karrie Webb
President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding. -- Liya Kebede
...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is. --
I take on everybody's problems. I have a very maternal side. I'm basically a very normal, down-to-earth person. -- Shannen Doherty
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. -- Betty Rollin
The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason. -- Bryant H. McGill
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it. -- S. J. Perelman
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy -- Leo Tolstoy
I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene. -- Dan Savage
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife. -- Anne, Princess Royal
The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even. -- Lidia Yuknavitch
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her. -- Rosemary Mahoney
The fact that mammalian crying serves as a cue for maternal support, rather than as a dinner bell, is a major evolutionary difference. -- Matthew D. Lieberman
Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations. -- Liya Kebede
I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him. -- Donna VanLiere
The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world. -- Robin Lim
I KNOW THAT I CAN'T SOLVE ALL THE MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGES IN THE WORLD BY MYSELF. I NEED AND WANT OTHERS TO JOIN ME. -- Christy Turlington
It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism. -- Vera Farmiga
Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal. -- Jim Goad
Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning. -- Edith Stein
It is in the encounter of the maternal guiding instincts with the sensitive periods of the newly born that conscious love develops between parent and child. -- Maria Montessori
I'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken nights and nappy changes holds no appeal for me. -- Kiki Dee
Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession. -- Thomas Aquinas
Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise. -- Liya Kebede
Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring. -- Frans de Waal
My passion for maternal and child health led me to continue my studies and pursue the path of midwifery. And here I am now... still catching babies. -- Robin Lim
More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine. -- Marilynne Robinson
I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas. -- Sophia Myles
People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people. -- Caleb Carr
The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman. -- Jacques Attali
It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is. -- Elizabeth Reaser
If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip. -- Nancy Friday
My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was a direct descendant of Sir Christopher Wren. -- Jeremy Hardy
When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect... -- Rush Limbaugh
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding -- Nicholas D. Kristof
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Statistically, the United States rates number 39 in maternal mortality. This means that it is safer to be pregnant and to give birth in 38 other countries than the USA... and less expensive too. -- Robin Lim
Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because, like that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us. -- Henrietta Dumont
I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household. -- Kathryn Harrison
...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned. -- Alexandre Dumas
I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class. -- Maurice Allais
I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements. -- Paul Gauguin
I snap and storm around and then spend long nights thinking of the most damaged adults I know and wondering if my particular brand of maternal fuckups are how they ended up like that. -- Kelly Corrigan
[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children" who feature in the novel - those come from my research. -- Chris Cleave
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful. -- Gail Sheehy

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