Bernice Johnson Reagon Quotes

Someone's going to be able to take good care of my sister. She knows how to be taken care of.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

I'm so into momminess.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

I love work, but no job could ever compare with the job of being a mother.

I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

I'm a nurturer by nature!

To be a mother is a beautiful thing, but to be able to assume the role for a child in need is nothing less than amazing. I believe that any woman who takes on the role of a mother, whether it be naturally or through foster care or adoption, should be held in the highest regard.

For me, it's the ultimate to be able to nurture and nourish someone. They trust you. It's a basic form of intimacy in a community.

What least makes a mother is biology.

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Without love, the world itself would not survive.

Woman's reason is in the milk of her breasts.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.

Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

Definitely being a mom changes your perspective on everything.

If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what life is about.