Motherhood Quotes

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

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

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

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

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

Most nights, someone ends up in our bed. The kids do knock before entering. We've at least got that part down because mommy and daddy need some space.

What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.

A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous.

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood.

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.

When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted four. And now I definitely want another, but I don't know when.

Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream.

Becoming a mom allowed me to just relax in a way I never had before. I used to care a lot about what I looked like in public or what people thought of me. I care at least 40 percent less now.

I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?

Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

Mother lode of learning.