Mothering Quotes
Mothering Quote of the day
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
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.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
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.
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.
Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.
We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.
~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.~
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.
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.
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.
A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.
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.
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.
To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.
My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.
Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung!
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.
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She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~
There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.
Right mothering meets the child’s need. Focusing on what the child should not be draws resistant energy. Pointing out what the child should be feeds self-hatred and struggle.
Mothering Oxymoron: Reminding the kids to not talk with food in their mouths, yet I have food in my mouth while trying to correct them in the moment.
Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.
Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the day I became a mother.
his mother, who had never been able to manage him, sent him to school to get rid of him, lamented his absence till he returned, then writhed and fretted under his presence until again he went.