Al Pacino

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

American Actor

Kim Fields

I was always very maternal with my friends. I wasn't the kind of little girl that played with dolls and pretended I was the mommy. I wasn't that child, so when I say I was always maternal, I don't mean in that sense - but I've always been a nurturer.

American Actress

Christy Turlington

Every Mother Counts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.

American Model

Erica Jong

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

American Novelist

Hillary Clinton

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

American Politician

Omari Hardwick

I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.

Harry A. Blackmun

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

American Judge

Rosemary Mahoney

Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.

American Writer

S. J. Perelman

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

Lela Loren

While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.

Refers to feelings and actions expected from a caring mother.

Emotional Connection

Can describe someone who has a motherly role without being an actual mother.

Not Just Biological

Refers to blood relations on the mother's side, not the father's.

Family Ties

Traits or characteristics derived from one's mother's ancestry can be contextualized with 'maternal'.

Hereditary Aspects

Often used in healthcare to relate to mothers during pregnancy or childbirth.

Medical Context

Reflects concerns and issues pertinent to the health of mothers.

Health Focus

Implies a protective and nurturing behavior, similar to that of a mother.

Protective Nature

Often denotes kindness and compassion, akin to what a mother provides.

Compassionate Quality

 which, again, allows us to access those big ideas that reveal the deeper meaning of a story, ideas, in this case, like the parameters of maternal instinct, the consequences of injustice, and the question of whether or not ethics can even exist in a corrupted moral system. It's impossible to sit down

Mining literature for...

 we showed that the brain networks for empathy and loving-kindness are different. Now, that's all well done, so we got that from evolution, from maternal care, parental love, but we need to extend that. It can be extended even to other species.

Matthieu Ricard: How to...

 And most of those deaths are preventable. So in our world where we control the reins of power, we would ensure, we would ensure that there were programs to reduce this alarming rate of maternal mortality. And we would make sure

The End of Roe v. Wade...

 to its natural end. So by having death as a part of the cultural and social fabric of life, people's everyday decisions about their health and healthcare are affected. The patriarch of my husband's maternal clan,

Kelli Swazey: Life that...

 I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse. Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators,

Rita Pierson: Every kid...

 Look here -- you have to end poverty, education, gender, child and maternal health, control infections, protect the environment and get the good global links between nations in every aspect from aid to trade.

Hans Rosling: The good...

 we have a total at the moment of eight or a maternal age vulnerable orphan has gone through the trauma of losing his or her mother the long-term goal is to release them into protected forests and

CUTE Orphan Orangutans...

 strong women my paternal grandmother was a teacher a furious smoker a fast Walker and a supporter of a soccer team that most of her children detested my maternal grandmother who sexually racy

I am here to confuse you...

 was a preacher but my maternal grandfather said to me US natives after DNA of a tree and I started learning myself how we do have a Navajo tradition and that's why I try to teach my kids

See What Canyon Life Is...

 a loving caring home but if they're wild parents that they should be free these birds are my life they are and my love I must have a strong maternal

Maternal

Emotional Connection

Not Just Biological

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