Motherhood Quotes

Every woman is a gift when she becomes a daughter, Every woman is beautiful when she becomes a lover, Every woman is special when she becomes a wife, Every woman is a god when she becomes a Mother

I sighed and deleted the message, imagining the dirty clothes multiplying like rabbits, because that’s what they do when I’m not around.

Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways.

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human?I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.

...moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.

Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.

That means you're my kid, " I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

[On visitors after having a new baby...] "Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets past that front door unless they come bearing one of two things: food or cleaning products!

Are we always to be wantingwhat isn't:the greenest grassaccord and principlemotherhood and career?Yet our age lies to uslike an asp, whispering. "Both.

Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE.

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

I know less than you thought, but more than you realize.

(Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.

...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric Carle.

God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon or a wooden sword. And who sometimes make you die bearing them.

Excuse my dress. I was half an hour late this morning. When you lose half an hour in this house, you never can pick it up again, try how you may. -Reverend Finch's wife

It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it love?

...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.

And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen.

She has had any number of foals. I yield to her judgement.

I see my mother exactly as she is – sad and strong, tense and trying.

No place in this world is, as safe as my mother’s womb, And nobody in this world is, as loving as my mother.

Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.

Know the rules of child rearing!!Rule one: Physical strength!Rule two: Physical strength!There are no rules three or four, but rule five is physical strength!

Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.

-she loved Lily Cate like her own, and for this night, this moment, she would be her mother, even though there was no guarantee of tomorrow.

Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are.

Real women have children, wise women choose for themselves.

His manners are old-fashioned, the work of a vigilant mother.

Preston doesn't do well with trouble. But that's why I'm here. That's why my name is Mommy.

The day you call someone "Mother" is the day your pain is hers to bear, you burden hers to carry.

What if happiness is a choice?

It's true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.

But I realize now that the toughest choices, the ones that will haunt us for the rest of our lives, are ones that my mom is still sheltering me from.

She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.

For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now.

Then too, motherhood is broken because in this place, to be a good mother is to give yourself completely. It is to erase yourself. This is what I refused to do.

What’s got into me? Do I want children? Do I want to be a mamma, nursing and singing lullabies? Marriage plus pregnancy? And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I’m safe?

I want to promise you / permanence, my constant orbit, but even continents / are revisions. I am only your diving bell in water / hemmed by shifting plates.

Don't compare yourself to other MOMS... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.

You don't get your prebaby body back, ever, because you cannot go back to being a person who hasn't had a baby. Because you had a baby.

Loving someone as fiercely as my mom loves me must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it.

Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.

Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!

I am so thankful to MOTHER for making my ordinary life extraordinary. MOTHER - Multiplied Opportunities Through Her Endless Reinvention.