Maternal Instinct Quotes:

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

- Helen Mirren

topic: Motherhood, Instinct, Maternal Instinct

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

source: 1977 My Mother, My Self, ch.1.

topic: Mother, Believe, Love You, Maternal Instinct

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Peace, Too Much, Instinct, Maternal Instinct, Natasha

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

- Holland Taylor

topic: People, Interesting, Instinct, Maternal Instinct

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

- Agnetha Faltskog

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Strong, Children, Cutting, Maternal Instinct, Winter Snow

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

source: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.86, e-artnow

topic: Instinct, Reverence, Superstitious, Maternal Instinct

When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: "Limbaugh – ‘When WOMEN Got The Right To Vote Is When It All Went Downhill’" by Kimberley Johnson, www.addictinginfo.org. July 4, 2012.

topic: Government, Emotion, Vote, Maternal Instinct