{"quotes":[{"text":"It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.","author":"Anita Diamant","tags":["babies","motherhood"],"id":217,"author_id":"Anita+Diamant"},{"text":"The message is clear: a good mother breast feeds. Significantly, this good mother shares a sociocultural profile with women in other developed countries: she is over thirty, is a high earning professional, does not smoke, takes prenatal classes, and benefits from a long maternity leave.","author":"Élisabeth Badinter","tags":["motherhood","privilege"],"id":427,"author_id":"%C3%89lisabeth+Badinter"},{"text":"Mothers are all slightly insane.","author":"J.D. Salinger","tags":["motherhood"],"id":1059,"author_id":"J.D.+Salinger"},{"text":"Carrie, sitting there over your coffee cup in a wasteland of worn-out silver wedding rings, feeding yourself confections of motherhood like the display cakes in the bakery where you worked- all trimming over cardboard.","author":"Rita Mae Brown","tags":["motherhood"],"id":1110,"author_id":"Rita+Mae+Brown"},{"text":"I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.","author":"Lance Conrad","tags":["heroism","motherhood","mothers"],"id":1688,"author_id":"Lance+Conrad"},{"text":"...If I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, so that plague and misfortune would pass over them. Alas, I lack the qualifications. So when there was still world and time enough I fretted. I nagged. I corrected. I got everything wrong.","author":"Mordecai Richler","tags":["babies-kids-children-givingup","concern-for-others","fatherhood","fret","fretting","maternal-love","maternalism","motherhood","paternal-love","paternal-protection","paternalism","protect-my-sleeping-babes","worry"],"id":1933,"author_id":"Mordecai+Richler"},{"text":"The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.","author":"Nancy E. Turner","tags":["marriage","motherhood","wife","women"],"id":3109,"author_id":"Nancy+E.+Turner"},{"text":"Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.","author":"Ezra Taft Benson","tags":["women","motherhood","world "],"id":3746,"author_id":"Ezra+Taft+Benson"},{"text":"Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years.","author":"Brandon Shire","tags":["bad-childhood","mother","motherhood"],"id":3966,"author_id":"Brandon+Shire"},{"text":"You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will become.” – Lady Lalaigne to Nhakira, “Chosen.","author":"Jeanine Henning Nhakira","tags":["belief","determination","faith","fantasy","fiction","guidance","motherhood","motivation","nlp","young-adult-fantasy"],"id":4284,"author_id":"Jeanine+Henning+Nhakira"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":875,"pages":88,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}