Motherhood Quotes
Sin is a fact of life. It is the way we deal with it that changes ours.
I give praise and honor to the Holy one of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the blessing of motherhood.
Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.
I suffer from CLAUSTROPHOBIA, a fear of closed spaces.For example, I’m petrified that the WINE store will be closed before I have time to get there!!!
Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine, lovely. But there was this persistent sense of dread.
It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.
MOMB - noun - One who can deal with all of the INSANITY of being a MOM... Because she's the BOMB!
Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separation.
There's a reason why the assumed goal for women in virginity-movement screeds is marriage and motherhood only: The movement only believes that's the only thing women are meant for.
There is a world of difference between the experienceof 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basicbiological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us wantto live.
Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story.
Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see.
She grinned, a silty grin. 'You were my two dividends, yes? Don't you forget that.'Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, 'But what an investment. My life.
Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in.
It had been six weeks since I brought my second child, my daughter, kicking and screaming into the world. Six weeks, that magic number men everywhere look forward to and women dread.
Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.
In the space of his years, my body had taken its full shape and my heart had grown in wisdom, for I understood what it was to be a mother.
Motherhood is a constant battle of going to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and staying awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity!
At the moment of giving birth to a child, is the mother separate from the child? You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.
These days, “getting lucky” means drinking an entire cup of COFFEE while it’s still HOT!
I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify.
Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body
In most families, care-giving becomes the woman's responsibility. While care-giving can enrich you, it can also deplete you if you don't have support or make time for self care.
One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.
But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins.
Being mom is one of my favorite things. It makes my day watching my kids grow and accomplish things in their lives.
Because I'm your mother, that's why.
The journey of motherhood centers on being the person God has chosen out of all humanity and space and time to care for these souls, these beings who will exist for all eternity.
It's tough being AWESOME all the time, but the kids need someone to look up to!
First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier.
A mother's love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends.
And I always say that to the children: “You are the greatest thing I ever did in my life!
They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.
Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them, bottled up beneath their mother exteriors.
Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.
Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say.That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.
Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.
I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.
Each woman must realize that she is the final guardian of her unborn child.
For as long as I am your mother and you are my only child, i will worry and hope and pray for you. Do not ask the impossible.
I'd just done the most important thing a person can ever do. I'd made life. At the very instant he was put into my arms, I loved this new person more than anyone but a mother can understand.
Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family.Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.