Maternal Instinct Quotes

Woman has her battlefield. With each child that she brings to the nation, she fights her fight for the nation

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true... I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.

I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

What a priceless ideal for mothers to follow! To continue bearing children misshapen, deformed, hideous to the eyes, in the hope that Heaven may be filled! It’s a monstrous doctrine, abhorrent of every civilized instinct in us.

I am the mother of five children.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

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!'

The most empowering feminist act is for women to be taught about the ways babies bond and then decide what they want to do.

I don't have to be logical - I'm a mother.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Wars are detested by mothers.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

There's something really empowering about going, 'Hell, I can do this! I can do this all!' That's the wonderful thing about mothers, you can because you must, and you just DO.

I think I would probably have been a good mother.

All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

When I'm ready, I'll have a baby - and I will love that.

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.