Motherhood Quotes

When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

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.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

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.

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

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.

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

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.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

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.

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.

Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

Motherhood has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has taught me a lot about myself, about the things I'm great at, and the things I need to work on.

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.

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

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

Motherhood changes everything.

I was always confident and comfortable. But motherhood is what really made me feel beautiful.

I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are!

When I woke up this morning, I found I'd turned into my mother.

In today's world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them independent and free.

No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all.

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth.

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

It's incredible. Everything you ever thought about love just becomes night and day. I mean, you never thought you could love that much. You rediscover the world, and it's just a beautiful thing.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

The issue of motherhood is no longer salient. In fact, the very first female bomber for Hamas posed in her last will and testament video with her two kids.

It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

Motherhood is the greatest thing Ive ever done in my life.

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.