Ellen Key Quotes

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now - like it or not. And indeed, all women I know play that role for somebody - like it or not.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

You really get your sense of women, to begin with, from your mom.

I'm not made to be a mother.

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

When I was young, I had two older sisters, and since I was the youngest in my family, my mom took me around with her all the time. I was forever with her when she was having coffee in the middle of the afternoon with her three sisters. And they would talk about men. I absorbed a lot of that.

What a woman is taught, she shares with her family.

You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

I've always wanted to have kids. I do think I would be a great mom.

I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose to give up for our families is important and valid.

Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

I think motherhood is just about instinct.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.