In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?
At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.
O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
I am the youngest in my family, and have never been responsible for anyone else.
Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
I don't have kids, but in many ways I feel I've had them already. I don't want to say I raised my brothers - that sounds too strong - but actually I do feel like that a bit.
I can relate to a guy who stays home and does it for his family and friends.
Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
It matters in a fatherly way.
I grew up in an era where Dad worked, Mum looked after the family, and if I think of the qualities she brought to that - nurture and support are so valuable.
My mom quit her whole life and came to live with me in California.
And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.
Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.
I have three children to take care; I have a wife. My job is to take care of them, and I can say it's a pretty cool job to have.
I'm always the person who's taking everyone else's kid and putting them on my hip, so I've kinda always been a mama.
Parenting is the most important profession in the world.
I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.
Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.
I like to take care of people, I love looking after my friends and stuff.
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
There are times where you can't do it yourself and the system takes over, or it's appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
