Maternal Instinct Quotes

“It's the ancient instinct: In times of great danger, be wary of strangers. Trust no one outside your circle. But there's another instinct, far older, as old as life itself, nearly impossible for the human mind to override: Protect the young at all costs. Preserve the future." - Vosch”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“I’m not the maternal type. Lullabies bore me. The idea of a child hanging off my breast, using me for sustenance, makes me very angry for some reason. Probably because I am always angry about everything. I am like a gramophone and the volume’s too loud, and you can’t find the off button, and all you can do is cover your ears until the end of the record.”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

“There is a world of difference between the experience
of 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basic
biological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us want
to live.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution

“As significant as our biological mother is in her presence or absence, it is fascinating that women can tap in to the flow of maternal love through forming strong attachments to other women.”
― Pippa Grace, Mother in the Mother: Looking Back, Looking Forward - Women's Reflections on Maternal Lineage

“Now I know. If God himself stood before me and said, "Give me that child, that I might slaughter him," I would tell him, "BITE ME!”
― Julie McGalliard, Waking Up Naked in Strange Places

“A mom empowered is a world empowered.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“The idea of the boy's being involved in any of that made Liska's skin crawl. He looked so sweet, seemed so polite, so vulnerable. The fact that he had had so much sadness and tragedy in his life tripped the Mother switch in her and made her want to put an arm around him and comfort him. He wasn't much older than Kyle, her firstborn. It was difficult for her not to look at Bobby Haas and see Kyle, and want to protect him.”
― Tami Hoag, Prior Bad Acts

“Study mothers, you'll understand ecology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace