Motherhood Quotes

You only confuse hope with power once in life.

Oh mommy! You are my world, my love. I am your little boy, and I stole your heart.

...always-the sharp, plaintive edgeon the rimof the spoonof my giving.(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')

It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.

Blessed your mum, who carried you in a womb for nine months.

Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?” asked a gray female pup. “Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he’s scared of the raghnaid?

I don’t give up on people, even when they give up on me.

I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.

My special possessions are my sacred family.

Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the day I became a mother.

Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.

A boy who could make his mother feel special inspite of his own ordeals is the boon from God in lieu of some good deed.

Passion stimulates you, love intoxicates you, marriage sobers you, and parenthood tries you.

Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of our desperation and wishful thinking?

If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch.

Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories

Florence imagined the Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant to be an enormous brick factory like the ones in New York. But as she approached she saw it was in fact a small city of its own

A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism

She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

(Georgie) Two hundred years later and it's exactly the same thing. You want to spend every single moment with your children and still have a fulfilling life at work.

Only you can know what's true for you. I'll help you get there.

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

It’s the angle. You can’t see me from where you’re standing.

When the last woman dies, the last man dies!

Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do somethingfor our children'.

Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

Abort the thought, save the baby

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

When I was a kid my mom would send me off to school each day with the words, ‘Remember: be happy! The most important thing today is that you are happy!

If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

A mother is the most important blessing of your life.

Never hurt a woman because she is someone’s mother or will be someone’s mother. Could you hurt your mother?

I wish I had lost an arm or a leg. It would have been much easier than losing a part of my heart, which lives on, but now beats to a different rhythm.

It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that no longer is there.

Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of our hearts, the windows of our lips, and the sobs in our voices.

The beauty of the sea is that it never shows any weakness and never tires of the countless souls that unleash their broken voices into its secret depths.

To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.

Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do—the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly at home, especially when children arrive on the scene.

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

When a mother elevates her communication, she naturally elevates the outcomes of her child's life since a mother's words become her child's universe of possibilities.

Bless your mum, who carried you for nine months in her womb.

Leah: I want those gubs Mommy.Kate: They're not 'gubs' they're 'gloves'Aaden and Leah try and say glovesLeah: Gloves!Kate: Good job!Aaden: Gubs!Kate: No

When you have done all that you can do, A true Mother will always stick by you. You may think sometimes that she is rude. She has to be because this world can be crude.

Healthy boys grow into healthy men.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father.