Motherhood Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

There is nothing more powerful and beautiful than motherhood.

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".

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Motherhood is always an act of courage.

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.

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.

Mothers reflect God's loving presence on earth.

One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

Necessity, mother of invention.

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

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.

At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage

There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.

My most important title is still “mom-in-chief.” My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Having a kid is like an industrial revolution of the emotions. Suddenly you can mass produce worry, and guilt.

A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy'Albert Einstein

My daughter asked me what it’s like to have children… So I followed her to the washroom every time she went and asked her questions through the door until she lost her S#!T…

Motherhood isn't just about making babies, it's about making lives and molding destinies.

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

What else is a child, but hope? Hope for the future, hope for one's own salvation, hope for a tomorrow that shines as bright and warm as the best yesterday you can remember.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.