In her own experience she knew how often the thing one called motherhood would come into actual existence after a struggle like this when birth itself had failed to accomplish anything but a physical obligation.
He held old-fashioned views and rather thought that all women regarded motherhood as a duty and privilege of existence.
It woke in her the eternal motherhood which lies in every woman and she felt that she wanted to comfort him.
The garment she was fashioning was one of those almost shapeless infant robes that the inventive skill of dawning motherhood makes so diversely pretty and daintily ungraceful.
Honest motherhood and sincere sisterly gratitude, pride, and affection flashed from her eyes, deepened the modest blush on her cheek, and trembled in her tones.
But first it must be proven that the present form of marriage and its effect on motherhood is not necessarily permanent, but, like all else, subject to natural development and change.
But the day has come when, if all signs do not fail, spring is here, and a thousand and one buds of promise are pushing toward the light, when a wider and saner understanding of motherhood and marriage is at hand.
Motherhood standing at the source of life with its creative and ever recreative force.
It is not marriage but motherhood which has given permanence to sex relations wherever they appear.
Motherhood is an eternal force lying at the root of life, not subjected to time or change.
And truly, how far have we strayed from the path of true and natural feeling when we seek to justify motherhood from the standpoint of expediency and custom!
To work out logically from this standpoint, the only condition of motherhood which is socially justified, is that one which is the result of marital relations.
In consequence motherhood without the consent of the State or the benefit of the clergy is just as logically condemned.
Either the doctrine of economic equality is largely illusory, therefore, or else it must be extended to making motherhood a salaried occupation just as much as mill work or stenography.
A glorification of motherhood and fatherhood in these ways would have a portentous influence on public opinion.
Very properly, one does not care to make one's deepest feelings public; but if such subjects as love and motherhood can not be discussed naturally and without affectation, they ought to be left alone.
The withdrawal of this large body of women from the career of motherhood into a celibate career may be desirable if these women are below the average of the rest of the women of the population in eugenic quality.
The solution in America is not to create an impermeable social stratification, but to create a public sentiment which will honor women more for motherhood than for eminence in the largely futile activities of polite society.
Certainly, if but for motherhoodshe should vote, then ten thousand times more necessary is it that the mother should be guarded and armed with this great social and political power for the sake of all men and women who are yet to be.
Not all are called to motherhood in the literal sense, but all are called to the great, true motherhood in some of its manifold trusts and obligations.
These are they to whom the enlightened, educatedmotherhood of the State of Oregon must look largely for the decision.
The chances are that time will not improve but rather aggravate her troubles, especially if the cares of motherhood be added to those of wifehood, which she finds quite enough for her capacities.
And beyond, in all relevancy, there opens the knowledge that motherhood is a thing to be trained for, as much as stenography!
To be sure, in the village the old confusion between motherhood and domestic service still maintains.
Unlike most women, she had not needed marriage and motherhood to open the great gate of her heart to her kind: I do not mean there are not many like her in this.
All her motherhood was concentrated in the two worn-out words.
The mere fact of motherhood does not bring mother love within; any mother that does not give to her child a true idea of the mother-heart of God fails utterly in being a mother.
It was themotherhood within her, I suppose, that drove her to the marriage and the kiddies.
She stopped breathless, her defensivemotherhood in arms.
A woman shall be saved through the child-bearing," said St Paul; not necessarily her own, but by participation in the great act of motherhood which is the crown and glory of her sex.
It is easy to understand that desire to shelter under the dear mantle of motherhood which has led to one of the abuses of modern Romanism.
It is because war is an enemy to the highest motherhood that women should array themselves against it.
If it is known in advance that such cannot be the case, and it may generally be known, then the responsibilities of motherhood should be undertaken with the greater precaution.
She only stood on the threshold of motherhood as yet.
When Julius looked up, his eyes rested upon the bronze pietà , age-old witness to the sanctity of motherhood and of suffering alike.
And so, at this juncture, realising that which her motherhood meant, her immaturity, her girlhood fell away from Katherine Calmady.
The force of her motherhood had awakened in Katherine a latent, titanic element.
Not only the mystery of human love, but the mystery of dawning motherhoodhad come close to him.
For a moment, even motherhood went down before purely personal feeling--and this, by the irony of circumstance, immediately after motherhood had made supreme confession of immutability.
All the primitive fierceness, the savage tenderness of her motherhood surged up within her.
The boy's little declaration stirred all the latent motherhood in her.
For, not only the accustomed burden of her motherhood was upon her, but that other unaccustomed burden of admitted middle-age.
And seeing this, Katherine's motherhood arose and confronted her with something of reproach.
In the woods motherhood for a time swamps all other feelings; and Zoe now looked upon her former lover as she would have done upon any other creature who threatened her kittens.
As a rule a doe rabbit is the gentlest of wild things; but motherhood will nerve the most timid, and Brownie's whiskers twitched as she faced the foe who was stealing towards her in the darkness.
The Virgin unites the sweetness of fresh, young motherhoodwith womanly dignity of character.
The first Madonnas showed none of the aspects of ordinary motherhood in attitude, gesture, or expression.
Our next question is concerned with the aspects of motherhood displayed in Madonna pictures: in what relation to her child has the Madonna been represented?
What is true of all motherhood finds a supreme illustration in the character of the Virgin Mary.
No phase of motherhood is more touching than the watchful care which guards the child while he sleeps; nor is infancy ever more appealing than in peaceful and innocent slumber.
Chronologically, our list reads backwards, as the religious aspect of Mary's motherhoodwas the first treated in art, while the naturalistic conception came last.
Whatever the variation in attitude, the thought is the same: it is an expression of that higher, finer aspect of motherhood which regards infancy as an object not only of love, but of reverent humility.
But though the sacred mystery of Mary's experience sets her forever apart as "blessed among women," she is the type of true motherhood in all generations.
To begin with, where is the reverence for motherhood among the Roman Catholic priests?
Doubtless a few fashionable butterflies avoid motherhood for selfish reasons; but these are unimportant exceptions to the rule.
While destroying the morals of the maid, it wreeks the prospective motherhood of the matron.
Says Punch's reviewer of a recent heroine: "Her point of view was typified in her attitude toward the illicit and incidental motherhood of one of her acquaintances.
But more unfortunate, to my mind, than an omission of the license, is the fact that motherhood should ever be counted a crime.
Not the Mary blessed among women, the type of motherhood and purity, but the other Mary, who was forgiven much because she had much loved.
And these are truer proofs ofmotherhood in a country than in a woman, for the woman in her conception and generation is but the imitation of the earth, and not the earth of the woman.
Does it not condemn her to the block, does it not degrade and shame her if she refuses to buy her right to motherhood by selling herself?
Few children in wedlock enjoy the care, the protection, the devotion free motherhood is capable of bestowing.
Were marriage to contain all the virtues claimed for it, its crimes against motherhood would exclude it forever from the realm of love.
Rather would she forego forever the glory of motherhood than bring forth life in an atmosphere that breathes only destruction and death.
If motherhood is the highest fulfillment of woman's nature, what other protection does it need, save love and freedom?
To speak of these wounded men as of a heap of futile misery is like missing the worthiness of motherhood in the details of obstetrics.
It is as real for him as the experience of motherhood for a woman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motherhood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
