Maternal Influence Quotes

“When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.”
― Joss Whedon

“Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold

“when a woman herself becomes pregnant, it is as if she links directly back into an intact matrilineal network where all the mothers, all the wombs, all the foetuses and infants are connected. This does something peculiar to maternal temporality: it has the ability to stretch time out in linear directions to the distant past and future, and equally to concertina in upon itself to a point that is always in the present. Folding out, folding in, the past and the future, hinged together like delicate butterfly wings. In the way that matryoshka dolls can be opened out and displayed in a long line from smallest to biggest, or packed one inside the other, becoming one body, one space, one time.”
― Pippa Grace, Mother in the Mother: Looking Back, Looking Forward - Women's Reflections on Maternal Lineage

“Children are sacred beings.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“This little girl will be fearless. She’ll do whatever she wants. She won’t feel as scared as me.” A quiet mantra, she repeated it daily.”
― Lynda Nguyen, Freedom and Feminism: Breaking The Rules. Telling The Truth To Freedom.

“All this was in contrast to the idea that a newborn, on the basis of cortical immaturity, is a being who remembers and understands nothing: a person only within the context of the mother’s acknowledgment, blank, a species of human cabbage.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

“Put some goodness into the world before it blows up.
[ -- Alice Crowe, Cameron Crowe's mother]”
― Cameron Crowe, The Uncool: A Memoir