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"Children
are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.
~ Kofi Annan
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Peace
is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the
smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy
of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is
the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause,
the triumph of truth. Peace is all of these and
more and more.
-- Menachem
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Most
families need both parents to work. Moms need to
be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility
in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.
-- Joan Blades
The
purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers
really need to be given the ability to parent.
-- Joan Blades
Even
though mother's issues are not front page news,
they touch us all personally, some more than others,
and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots
engagement. -- Joan
Blades
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“It
is not until you become a mother that your judgment
slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”
-- Erma Bombeck
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"As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen,
I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive
medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies
that propagate disease, suffering, and death."
-- Helen Caldicott
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“There
is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways
to be a good one”
-- Jill Churchill
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"UNICEF
is helping mothers realize their dreams for the
future — a future in which the basic needs for
a child’s survival: food, clean water and simple
health care — are guaranteed."
-- Jane Curtin
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"A
mother's arms are more comforting than anyone
else's."
-- Princess Diana
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Motherhood
is... difficult and... rewarding.
-- Gloria Estefan
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My
mother told me to be a lady.
And for her, that meant be your own person, be
independent.
-- Ruth Bader
Ginsburg
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Before
you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of life.
-- Maureen Hawkins
Women
do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers.
They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to
be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities,
not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found
in new pursuits can also be found in mothering."
-- Elaine Heffner
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"Mama
exhorted her children at every opportunity to
'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun,
but at least we would get off the ground."
-- Zora Neale
Hurston
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A
mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy
and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place
of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our
sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us,
still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind
precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness,
and cause peace to return to our hearts.
~Washington Irving
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The
message of our campaign is "Make every mother
and child count". This campaign is not just about
health. It is also a powerful call for radical
progress in women's rights and the rights of their
children. Too often, the health of mothers and
children does not count. In too many parts of
the world, they are forgotten.
-- Liya Kebede
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"I
looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and
duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting
and challenging as any honorable profession in the world
and one that demanded the best I could bring to it."
-- Rose Kennedy
Sometimes
the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
-- Barbara Kingsolver
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The
natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.
When you become a mother, you are no longer the
center of your own universe. You relinquish that
position to your children.
-- Jessica Lange
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We
have an opportunity to focus global attention on
what should be obvious: every mother, and every
child, counts. They count because we value every
human life. The evidence is clear that healthy mothers
and children are the bedrock of healthy and prosperous
communities and nations.
~ Dr. LEE
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"All
that I am or ever hope to be,
I owe to my angel Mother.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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When
you are a mother, you are never really alone in your
thoughts.
A mother always has to think twice, once for herself
and once for her child.
-- Sophia Loren
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I
believe it is our obligation, as mothers, to get
peace into our classrooms so our children can
study, learn and practice peace. Then, and only
then, can we rest assured they will fulfill their
divine destinies as peacemakers and the world
will become a more peaceful place.
-- Debbie Robins
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Motherhood
changed me because it is so fundamental what you're
doing for another person. And you are able to
do it even though it takes a lot.
-- Meg Ryan
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When
motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning,
not the result of ignorance or accident, its children
will become the foundation of a new race.
-- Margaret Sanger
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if
you can just see all the children of the world
as your own, all the mothers of the world as you
are, we can make a huge difference.
-- Susan Sarandon
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"As a new mother, I want to give my children
the best start in life but millions of children
affected with AIDS don’t live with such certainty.
We can all do something to give them a future worth
living for. We can make a difference in a child’s
life by joining with UNICEF to ensure that mothers
and children are given the treatment that they deserve,
in order to live a life free from HIV and AIDS.”
-- Claudia Schiffer
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The
phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
“Motherhood
has a very humanizing effect.
Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
-- Meryl Streep
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And
so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often
than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark,
the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped
to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not
plainly read.
-- Alice Walker
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"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 |
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Biology
is the least of what makes someone a mother.
--
Oprah Winfrey
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Mama
was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion,
love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower,
then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
-- Stevie Wonder
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Mother's
Day - 2nd Sunday in May
International
Day of Families
- May 15
Father's
Day - 3rd Sunday in June
Parents
Day - 4th Sunday in
July
Family
Day
- September 26
