Feminine Riles: Cartoons to Promote Thought
| For millennia, by our blood, our work, our suffering, women have birthed the world. Our names are forgotten. — ♀ — We laid down our lives, and our futures, to serve our country, our people. Our contributions are denigrated and dismissed. — ♀ — We are the unknown and unappreciated soldiers. She was just a wife and mother. |
| Women will have equality when every mother is a hero. — ⚤ — When every mother is entitled to pay, a pension and veteran’s benefits. When there are statues honouring The Unknown Mother. — ⚤ — When the life of those who died giving life is as precious as the life of those who died giving death. |
| At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. – Golda Meir 〰 ⚤ 〰 When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. – Sophia Loren 〰 ⚤ 〰 Take motherhood … the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. – Barbara Ehrenreich 〰 ⚤ 〰 By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh 〰 ⚤ 〰 We have a secret in our [doula] culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. – Laura Stavoe Harm 〰 ⚤ 〰 Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. – Barbara Kingsolver |
| Women’s rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings. – Jill Ruckelshaus 〰 ⚤ 〰 There is an unspoken pact that women are supposed to follow. I am supposed to act like I constantly feel guilty about being away from my kids. (I don’t. I love my job.) Mothers who stay at home are supposed to pretend they are bored and wish they were doing more corporate things. (They don’t. They love their job.) – Amy Poehler 〰 ⚤ 〰 To nourish children and raise them against odds is any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.” – Marilyn French 〰 ⚤ 〰 You go through big chunks of time where you’re just thinking, ‘This is impossible — oh, this is impossible.’ And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible. – Tina Fey (on being a working Mother) 〰 ⚤ 〰 Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. – Elizabeth Stone 〰 ⚤ 〰 There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. – Jill Churchill |