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For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time. -- Shirley Jackson
What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent. -- Maria Montessori
I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?' -- Olivia Wilde
Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger. -- Rachel Weisz
Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing. -- Amy Grant
For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship. -- Nicole Krauss
And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms. -- Lauren Groff
Traveling is the great true love of my life... I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby - I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. Because it looks exactly like me. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Mother came to New York to keep house for me. -- Desi Arnaz
The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing. -- Kin Hubbard
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. -- David Johansen
My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York. -- Victor Garber
An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones. -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac. -- David Mamet
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people. -- David Dinkins
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays. -- Joan Rivers
In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights. -- Evo Morales
I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York. -- Kim Raver
My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York. -- Tom Felton
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth." -- Rabindranath Tagore
A new study found that a mother's diet affects her baby's allergies. Which can only mean one thing: My mom ate cats. -- Jimmy Fallon
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York. -- Diane Cilento
People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory. -- Pele
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As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things. -- Hannibal
My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother. -- Donna Leon
My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver. -- Joe Lhota
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path. -- Arthur Golden
My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately. -- Trevor Noah
I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97. -- Angie Martinez
[On the start of her career as a milliner:] When I was six I made my mother a little hat -- out of her new blouse. -- Lilly Dache
I finished 'Heartsick' with my daughter asleep in her bassinet by my desk, a feat that any new mother will tell you cannot be sufficiently praised. -- Chelsea Cain
When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear? -- Peter De Vries
When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education -- James McCosh
I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?' -- Colin Angle
As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother. -- Martha Stewart
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. -- Rajneesh
My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland. -- Alan Hovhaness
Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the road to earth again. -- P. C. Cast
My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants. -- Junot Diaz

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