Motherhood Quotes

I have a lot on my plate. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm tired. I'm really tired but I'm also very happy with my life.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.

I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.

There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their children before they think about themselves.

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

Motherhood is always an act of courage.

Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.

At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

There is nothing more powerful and beautiful than motherhood.

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and tenderness.

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.

Mother lode of learning.

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

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.

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.

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?

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.

I’ve come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important.

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.

I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really?

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times.

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.