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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time. — Karen Armstrong

The fact that mammalian crying serves as a cue for maternal support, rather than as a dinner bell, is a major evolutionary difference. — Matthew D. Lieberman

Rose blanched but complied, earning laughter in return from Dimitri. Rose Hathaway, notorious rebel, showing her maternal side. — Richelle Mead

The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar. — Gregory Maguire

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile. — Chris Hardwick

My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs. — Elisabetta Canalis

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

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep! — Edgar Lee Masters

For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment. — Elisabeth Badinter

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor. — Hasnat Khan

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip. — Nancy Friday

Children are sacred beings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her. — Rosemary Mahoney

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that can significantly alter the maternal and in utero environment, leading to complications. Optimizing — T. Murphy Goodwin

It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism. — Vera Farmiga

I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me. — Malaika Arora Khan

Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession. — Thomas Aquinas

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it. — S.J Perelman

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. — Helen Mirren

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. — Betty Rollin

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not going to defile my fingers with him,' said I, in answer to the maternal intercession. 'I wouldn't touch him with the tongs.' I — Anne Bronte

I'm allergic to dogs, so I couldn't even adopt what gay men typically adopt when they have that maternal gene. — Dan Savage

I take on everybody's problems. I have a very maternal side. I'm basically a very normal, down-to-earth person. — Shannen Doherty

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

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. — Mary Shelley

I've never been particularly maternal. — Clare Balding

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. — Harry A. Blackmun

Mama' (literally, maternal uncle), — Mahatma Gandhi

Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me. — Aporva Kala

I KNOW THAT I CAN'T SOLVE ALL THE MATERNAL HEALTH CHALLENGES IN THE WORLD BY MYSELF. I NEED AND WANT OTHERS TO JOIN ME. — Christy Turlington

President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding. — Liya Kebede

The earliest and most dramatic changes in maternal physiology are cardiovascular. These changes improve fetal oxygenation and nutrition. — Charles R.B. Beckmann

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

There's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is. — Guillermo Del Toro

I can be maternal with my friends. — Audrey Tautou

Right ain't changed in all these years. From my maternal grandmother, Pearl C. Parker — Deborah L. Parker

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him. — Donna VanLiere

I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal. — Elisabeth Elliot

Oh Man! Maternal love is a bitch. It takes a woman in its grip at the most unexpected moments.

~ Ananya Mehta — Kirtida Gautam

Now I know. If God himself stood before me and said, "Give me that child, that I might slaughter him," I would tell him, "BITE ME! — Julie McGalliard

Got anything to eat?" I asked.

"You know where the gas station is," said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother. — Susan Juby

daughter?' 'She was a beautiful child.' Mrs Williams's eyes grew misty with the quasi-maternal feelings of a procuress. — Ross Macdonald

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman. — Jacques Attali

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke

I'm a Cancer, which means I'm maternal and emotional. So in relationships I'm screwed. — Lindsay Lohan

I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, "Put a jumper on — Amanda Craig

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now. — Holland Taylor

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy — Leo Tolstoy

The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even. — Lidia Yuknavitch

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element. — Greg Bryk

I had a maternal instinct once, it lasted 48 hours — Sharon Law Tucker

The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason. — Bryant McGill

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help ... — Edith Stein

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

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me. — Charlotte Bronte

I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance. — Anne Lamott

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human. — Mary Beard

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn't. — Elizabeth Berg

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret. — Ayelet Waldman

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. — Kiki Dee

It was a festival of maternal love, all day, every day. — Amy Bloom

Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor. — Noel Coward