#maternal

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

#feminist #joss-whedon #maternal-influence #pro-feminist #whedon

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet. ↗

— Karrie Webb

#hit #i #maternal #me #now

...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#love

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#access #cannot #contraception #family #family planning

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #away #beginning #believe #came

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor. ↗

— Noel Coward

#bosom #her #like #maternal #me

No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal. ↗

— Megan Fox

#believes #i #maternal #me #really

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. ↗

— Samantha Fox

#feel #get #had #i #ideally

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#few #honduras #lanka #led #like

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. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#bush #cameroon #cut #difficult #expand