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Take it that even the mother, during the period of sacred maternity, becomes a cog in the machinery of industry.
Maternity handbook for pregnant mothers and expectant fathers.
His little sister, not so old as himself, is there, already beginning her education in the cares of maternity, looking after the helpless baby that crawls over the wooden threshold of the door with bare head, despite the bitter cold.
Miss Cassatt has found her true bent in her recent pictures of children and in the delineation of happy maternity.
Maternity is untold ages old; intelligent comprehension of the function very recent.
I saw a sort of hatred for those who would trouble him distort her face, resplendent with superhuman maternity.
In squalid garret, on Monday morning, Maternity awakes, to hear children weeping for bread.
All my life I have been possessed with the passion for paternity, I could almost say maternity.
He knew from his cousin the chief facts of maternity and paternity, but had not spoken to other boys about them.
In the absence of questions from a child, the ideal thing would be for the child, at the age of six, seven, or eight, to learn orally from his mother the facts of maternity and to receive warning against playing with his private parts.
For upwards of six years she treated Chopin with a mother's care; she had the passion of maternity in her towards them all, with whatever feelings it may have been complicated in her life of manifold experiences and with her artist temperament.
Josephine was only twenty, but the tropics and social experience and maternity had given ripeness to her life.
When women are married and the cares of maternity set in, one does not see how they can get any holiday or recreation at all; but I believe a good deal is done for their amusement by the mothers' meetings and other clerical agencies.
Others desire maternity but take no interest in sex activity, or positively shun it.
And this will be, not because with the sexual function of maternity necessarily goes in the human creature a deeper moral insight, or a loftier type of social instinct than that which accompanies the paternal.
She said, as if she had not heard the disclaimer of maternity.
Once misfortune overtook one, sex was forgotten, but at other times it was understood that Miss Lois Ann had small liking or sympathy for men, while on the other hand she brooded over women and children with the everlasting strength of maternity.
Maternity often wilts women, but paternity is apt to make men bloom with the importance of it.
All the latent maternity in the child rose to succor his helplessness.
No shirking by women of the sacred duties of perpetual maternity!
What miserable vanity on my part to expect her to think of me, when she was absorbed in the first cares and joys of maternity; especially sacred to her, poor soul, as the one consolation of her melancholy life!
Nature reigns at the top of her voice and chokes her realm with the fervor of her maternity.
In refusing to teach both sides of the subject, in failing to respond to the universal demand among women for such instruction and information, maternity centers limit their own efforts and fail to fulfil what should be their true mission.
They are concerned merely with pregnancy, maternity, child-bearing, the problem of keeping the baby alive.
Educated people derive their ideas of maternity for the most part, either from the experience of their own set, or from visits to impressive hospitals where women of the upper classes receive the advantages of modern science and modern nursing.
Whereas the great majority of mothers realize the grave responsibility they face in keeping alive and rearing the children they have already brought into the world, the maternity center would teach them how to have more.
On the other hand, the program is an indication of a suddenly awakened public recognition of the shocking conditions surrounding pregnancy, maternity, and infant welfare prevailing at the very heart of our boasted civilization.
There was about her a fairly masterly maternity.
This had dashed the triumphant and rapturous emotions of maternity with grief and fear.
As a matter of personal experience, my advice has been much more frequently and earnestly sought by those of our best classes who desired to know how to obtain, than by those who wished to escape, the offices of maternity.
Maternity has not withered her.
And his opinion seems to be that, in order to produce the noblest race possible, we must have a free society, with a State that reverences and respects maternity and pensions any mother who personally cares for her child.
The mothers who fret and rebel over their maternity, she found, are likely to bear neurotic children.
Maternity and paternity are met in the best manhood.
Her maternity, which should have been her glory and her pride, was at this hour an insupportable shame.
It was an outrage on maternity, a blot on nature, a filthy discredit to the house, a blight, a sore, a gangrene.
Awake to the throbs of love, and the joys of maternity.'
Awake to the throbs of love, and the feelings of maternity.
The duties of maternity became a source of additional happiness to these affectionate mothers, whose mutual friendship gained new strength at the sight of their children, equally the offspring of an ill-fated attachment.
This had been the dream of her young heart; but marriage and maternity, and the universal coldness with which the subject had been received, had chilled her so, that of late years she had almost ceased to speak of it.
The instincts of approaching maternity brightened the future.
And it is especially needful for woman, for the great peculiar function of maternity requires the finest muscular power.
The initiation into marriage, like its full fruition, maternity, is attended with more or less suffering.
Nature does not entirely make up at the end of life for the time lost from the duties of maternity in early womanhood; for the younger married have really a longer era of fertility than the older, though it terminates at an earlier age.
The monthly change is the prelude to maternity.
Conditions of modern life, and particularly urban life, leave the female organism less able to endure the drafts made upon the system by maternity, so that to bear a child may mean not only the sacrifice of comfort, but even the sacrifice of health.
There must therefore be a maternal instinct in the species, independent of actual maternity.
All other things sink into insignificance beside the glorious gift of maternity.
A woman is not liable to engage in political activity if she is very busy at home, and when confined to her bed by the labors and cares of maternity, she will be unable to engage in politics, even if she were willing.
The figure of the Virgin, found in these mighty scenes, is gradually clarified and developed, until we come to the thought on the one hand of her freedom from original sin, and on the other to that of her universal maternity.
We believe that these complaints are, as far as the maternity services in general are concerned, entirely unjustified.
In regard to the maternity homes which deal with unmarried women, there has also been some criticism of the usual regulations in these homes which call for a period of residence in the home both before and, especially, after confinement.
Approaching maternity had not softened her face, had not given to it the glorified Madonna look.
Hospital with maternity department with fully equipped delivery room and nursery.
The facts of superior bodily strength on the masculine side, and of maternity on the feminine side, small as they are now made to appear, are very great and decisive facts in themselves, and have necessarily governed the organization of society.
The dance is a continual exercise of the joints and muscles, but its swaying motion is not without grace and displays all the seductive beauty of the girls whose freshness has not been destroyed by love and maternity.
She was built magnificently, built as they don't seem able to build women now, built for maternity.
The vulture was the emblem of maternity, as being supposed to care especially for her young.
It is said that the duties of maternity disqualify for the performance of the act of voting.
Maternity is not necessarily motherhood any more than matrimony is always marriage.
Maternity is self-evident, while paternity can only be proved indirectly by the aid of reasoning.
This secret was the shame and dishonor of involuntary maternity and illegitimate birth.
It is precisely the instinctive aversion of Frieda Keller for her child, otherwise inexplicable, which shows most clearly that it was a case of imposed maternity, or sexual satisfaction on the part of the father alone.
Maternity benefit is anticipated in a donation of twenty shillings to every poor mother at the birth of a child.
The anguish of maternity should sanctify every woman.
Now that she had discovered all the delights of maternity she wondered at herself for having been so indifferent to this great power latent in her of creating life, and determined to have other children as soon as possible.
What if she had Anne's over-developed and thwarted maternity of helpfulness?
Maternity and the grievous and irksome processes of its accomplishment are apt to interfere with all this.
North, Sheila went to confide her expectation of maternity to her grandmother.
How, otherwise, could she be entrusted with the awful and inevitable responsibilities of maternity?
Upon the one hand it is the duty of the wife to arrange her thought and life with reference to maternity and the bearing of such a number of children as can be brought into the world in the highest state of physical, intellectual and moral equipment.
He taught the dignity and glory of the father and mother; the sacredness of maternity.
Thirdly, Jeanne labored under physical difficulties which rendered her incapable of maternity.
Maternity is her business, and men will so contrive the State as to discourage her from engaging in any other.
In many species the material fact of maternity is reduced to its simplest expression.
He saw the slight figure, already ripening into the rounded lines of maternity.
Maternity was detestable, yet it carried responsibilities which might not be neglected.
Yet she had done good; for when Natalie beheld this matron in all the pride and joy of approaching maternity, she saw in the spectacle a living denial of the frightful dogma which, if believed, must have turned the woman's triumph to despair.
Rose's splendid prophecy of maternity oppressed her some way.
Maternity is the loveliest word in the language, and every worthy mother is an aristocrat.
Compare that, my friend, with the maternity which is often the undesired consequence of a caprice or ceremony.
They will never be right until the social revolution has abolished privilege, and the state has granted to every woman a maternity endowment, with a mother's pension for every child during the entire period of the rearing and education of that child.
Many of the women carried infants at the breast; many were expectant of maternity.
She was elegantly dressed in a loose crimson gown beneath whose folds were revealed the lines of coming maternity.
For it was common medical knowledge out here that, given the distances and the general lack of conveniences, thirty to forty maternity cases per year were as much as a practitioner could with comfort take in hand.
How otherwise could she be entrusted with the awful and inevitable responsibilities of maternity?
As their food and clothing are scarce and coarse, their maternity increases.
It was a warning to me (as it should be to all mothers) not to take the solemn responsibility of maternity upon themselves without being prepared to sacrifice their own feelings for the sake of their children.
In the firelight, she seemed to forget her atrocious finery in the sweet consciousness of her maternity.
For herself, travelling on a dark road where all the stars had gone out, she would have cared little if at this time starvation and an end had come; but the tiger maternity was awake in her and cried out for the preservation of little Carmen.
Plato answers by admitting a collective paternity and maternity.
The maternity strong within her clamored for the power to shield her offspring from the dangers that would beset him.
She felt herself face to face with the great primeval instinct of maternity; and words failed her.
She got through maternity in a desultory way, with a great deal of ill health and enormous household bills.
It is a strange instinct that prompts these creatures to devote their lives to their city, taking no smallest thought for their individual good, without even the call of maternity or sex to guide them.
Nurses, governesses, schools, in turn relieve her of the irksome duties of maternity.
It is a crime unless the mother is a physically healthy, a mentally developed and comprehending, morally clear, strong, vigorous entity who knows her personal responsibility in maternity and, knowing, dares maintain it.
Maternity in the abstract represented to him a confused and embarrassing ideal.
The strongest affection she had ever known had been that which had been excited by the childish beauty and graces of Agnes, and she folded her in her arms and kissed her forehead with a warmth that had in it the semblance of maternity.
Twice, nay, thrice, she assumes the dangerous happiness of maternity, the incessant travail of a hazardous education.