A Quote by Mercedes Schlapp

I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.

Mercedes Schlapp

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Mercedes Schlapp
American - Public Servant
Born: December 27, 1972

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me.

Helen Mirren

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

Nancy Friday

The maternal instinct is in me.

Katy Mixon

I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

Samantha Fox

I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest, and I helped raise all of my younger sisters. I just fall into that aspect - that motherhood - naturally.

Katy Mixon

The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and men. It is an attitude of the mind. It is love - and that love is the very breath of life. No one would say, 'I will breathe only when I am with my family and friends; I won't breathe in front of my enemies.' Similarly, for those in whom motherhood has awakened, love and compassion for everyone are as much part of their being as breathing.

Mata Amritanandamayi

If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.

Louise Hay

The Veterans Health Administration is a perfect case study of how government should stay out of patient care altogether.

Mercedes Schlapp

A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.

William Shakespeare

I think motherhood is just about instinct.

Kourtney Kardashian

I love motherhood. I certainly wasn't aware of any mothering instincts until I had babies. I wasn't a person who desperately wanted to have kids, but you don't get it until you do it, and, suddenly, this nurturing instinct exists.