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Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents. -- Anne Lamott
Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. -- Patricia Arquette
Mothering you is the first thing of consequence I have ever done. -- Kelly Corrigan
Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung! -- Carole Maso
No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest. -- Ann Voskamp
Mothering your man is not sexy for you or for him. If you want your man to "start being a man", start being his lover not his mother. -- Miya Yamanouchi
Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs and your child's. You become stronger by remaining aware of your own well-being, which in turn makes you a stronger person for your child or children. -- Elizabeth Berrien
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My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering -- Mare Winningham
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight. -- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands. -- Oprah Winfrey
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. -- Betty Rollin
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. -- Susie Bright
When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net. -- Amy Dickinson
My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother. -- Michele Bachmann
Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life. -- Zora Neale Hurston
~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~ -- Julia Roberts
Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany shortcoming in adult life was now seen as rooted in the failure of mothering during childhood. -- Sylvia Ann Hewlett
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops. -- Anna Quindlen
Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the beginning of life; the beginning of mothering, and of fathering. We all deserve a good beginning. -- Sarah J. Buckley
When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place. -- Margaret Cho
The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry. -- Ellen Goodman
I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you). -- May Sarton
Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous. -- Lloyd DeMause
The all-pervading energy source of existence or Shakti manifests itself as creation. Shakti is the divine mother who gives birth to and nurtures the newborn-whether it is a newborn babies a brand new relationship, a fresh idea, or a magical manifestation. Although Shakti is beyond the boundaries of gender, form or color, we call It Mother because of its mothering and creative qualities. -- Deepak Chopra
I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so. -- Erma Bombeck
There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period. -- Susan J. Douglas
My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden. -- Irene Tomkinson
As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity. -- Elizabeth George
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. -- Robert Breault
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. -- Barbara Delinsky
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering. -- Jani Ortlund
Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science. -- David Steindl-Rast
Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking. -- Dennis Prager
Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home. -- Dennis Prager
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing. -- Luther Standing Bear

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