Quotation Explorer - 'Maternal'

I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on. - Julia Glass
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. - Mary Shelley
I hate how long it takes to feel radical, militantly maternal self-acceptance. - Anne Lamott
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death. - Octavio Paz
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