motherhood

She is entirely specialized for motherhood; but the thinking, and the determination of the conditions of her motherhood, are in the hands of other females, also highly specialized, and certainly the least selfish of living things -- _yet themselves sterile, incapable of motherhood_.

Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles 1909

Your comment that so much of motherhood is about sadness rang true for me.

» The Decline of Babywearing Strocel.com 2009

To do this means that they have to be willing to speak of what has made them unhappy about motherhood, what they've given up or had to sacrifice in the name of motherhood.

Mia Redrick: What New Mothers Need to Know About Motherhood Mia Redrick 2012

I would like to see the conversation of guilt and shame in motherhood transformed to something different.

Confessions Of A Bad Mother | Her Bad Mother 2009

To do this means that they have to be willing to speak of what has made them unhappy about motherhood, what they've given up or had to sacrifice in the name of motherhood.

Mia Redrick: What New Mothers Need to Know About Motherhood Mia Redrick 2012

As a husband and father, I can say the value of motherhood is priceless, but who will pay my wife for all the work she does as the mother of my children?

All else being equal. 2009

And the true story of motherhood is that it is hard, very hard, sometimes almost too hard.

Dark/Light | Her Bad Mother 2009

When modern American women make the deliberate choice not to have children they are still called upon to defend that choice, in a culture where motherhood is still regarded as the natural evolution of a woman’s life.

Elizabeth Gilbert - An interview with author 2010

Luckily for me, so much of your writing about motherhood is simply writing about womanhood, personhood, through your experience of them as a mother.

Who’s The Dummy, Mummy? | Her Bad Mother 2009

A gift to commemorate motherhood is sweet, though.

Right-Hand Man kittenpie 2009