Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Maternal Quotes from famous persons: Ayelet Waldman, Mercedes Schlapp, Hisham Matar, Isabella Rossellini, Billy Howle. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Maternal Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.
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Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor.
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The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they’re major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.
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I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.
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I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.
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Mum is withdrawn and very shy. I don’t see her as a friend, like I do my dad. He’s active and bouncy. She’s maternal, nurturing, exceptionally intelligent and empathetic. I’m a better person for having had her as a mother.
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Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother’s collection, all of which were manufactured by famed Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. To the naked eye, I am either a Jensen loyalist or a grandmother loyalist. Really I am just a Pretty Things loyalist.
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Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deaths, and children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not.
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It’s interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people… Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that’s what it is.
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It’s like there’s something very maternal about Wonder Woman: when push comes to shove, if nobody else wants to do it, Wonder Woman would step up and take care of business. But she doesn’t want to do it, and she would never take any delight in it. That’s Wonder Woman to me.
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I am not maternal at all. I don’t have any kids.
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I’m half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I’ve very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.
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I can be maternal with my friends.
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You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
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I am not maternal at all. I don’t have any kids.
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Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.
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I think a beautiful quality that’s a biological, hormonal imperative for women, whether they have children or not, is that we’re built to be empathic. For me, it was finally being maternal in an appropriate way instead of trying to mommy ex-boyfriends.
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My maternal grandfather was born in Yorkshire in England but was contracted to work for a company who had a base in Colombia. So they moved across to Santa Martre, and they liked it very much. It was a sunny place with beaches and a seafront, so they never went back to England and preferred to stay in Colombia.
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We don’t have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
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Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality.
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Our words and our marches must be accompanied by action – and that includes meaningful progress on issues ranging from maternal mortality disparities to inequities in access to healthcare, education, Internet, and transportation.
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I come from a family of linguists. My maternal grandparents have been authors and translators.
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Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in when complications arise.
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Mum is withdrawn and very shy. I don’t see her as a friend, like I do my dad. He’s active and bouncy. She’s maternal, nurturing, exceptionally intelligent and empathetic. I’m a better person for having had her as a mother.
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As a Global Maternal Health Advocate, I get to travel the world quite a bit, meeting individuals and visiting programs with tremendous potential and incredible vision to improve the quality of life for countless others.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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We don’t have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.
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In the world of maternal health, cell phone technology is being used to provide prenatal care, linking pregnant women to health care providers when they can’t otherwise reach healthcare facilities.
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I have no maternal instincts.
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In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it’s the mother who’s the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.
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My mother was an art school teacher and my father was an interior designer. So we’ve been relatively open minded as opposed to my conservative maternal side.
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We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.
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My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a ‘lively imagination.’ She told us that she was a direct descendant of Sir Christopher Wren.
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The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn’t operate in this region. It’s difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
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I can be maternal with my friends.
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Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development – it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor – it’s all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.
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South Carolina‘s lack of access to quality maternal health care is pervasive.
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Birth control is an important part of women’s healthcare. It allows women to plan and time their pregnancies, and reduces preterm births and maternal complications.
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I was always very maternal with my friends. I wasn’t the kind of little girl that played with dolls and pretended I was the mommy. I wasn’t that child, so when I say I was always maternal, I don’t mean in that sense – but I’ve always been a nurturer.
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It’s interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I’m much more interested in young people now.
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I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.
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I’ve never been particularly maternal.
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My maternal grandmother was the longest-lived of my grandparents. She migrated to Australia in her 80s and lived into her 90s. It was great that she got to be part of my adult life.
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I don’t think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
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In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it’s the mother who’s the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.
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My maternal great-grandfather Don Juan del Gallego was a Spanish adventurer from Asturias, Spain. He sailed on a galleon ship to the Philippines. He then went to the Bicol region to build a town that eventually became known as Del Gallego.
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The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn’t operate in this region. It’s difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.
