Motherhood Quotes
I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me
I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.
When you create a soul, plant the seeds of love with your thoughts, words, and actions . The soul flourishes among the flow-ers of love.
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.
No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.
Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.
I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that fiercely, or get that angry.
Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.
For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.
True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.
There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.
Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.
It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're going to be all right in life.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.
... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.
