It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance.
I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.
Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.
Prenatal care is one of the most effective ways to reduce maternal mortality because it identifies complications or high risks before emergency situations.
The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.
Look at Gwyneth Paltrow and my favourite, Kate Winslet. No one ever says, 'Oh, she's making a comeback.' To my mind, I just went on maternity leave and reported back to work.
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason.
You don't have to just shop in the maternity section when you are pregnant - you can shop anywhere, just be shape and size savvy!
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
I'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken nights and nappy changes holds no appeal for me.
In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all....
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balz...
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
