We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.
There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.
There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.
I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.
I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.
I think motherhood is just about instinct.
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.