Motherhood Quotes

There’s a wound most troubled boys share, which, at its core, comes from the feeling that they don’t have their father’s unconditional love.

When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does.

Despite what you might believe right now, your son’s future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there.

It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be.

Healing, it turns out, is a journey. It doesn’t happen all at once.

Let go of your daughter with grace and you'll find her calling on you with joy.

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

It was deflating to realize how much my own family's quality of life might improve if I replaced myself with a Fundamentalist stay-at-home daughter.

We all have a reason for living I am blessed mine has two eyes a heartbeat and calls me mum.

It takes a tremendous amount of strength to be a single mother. To hold down the forte of a home, a life and your child's entire happiness.

Motherhood by definition means a journey into the depths of one’s possibility.

My greatest hope is to be a mother who loves Jesus with a deep and abiding affection that joyfully overflows to my children.

A mother who would stop at nothing for her child is dangerous woman when crossed.

What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.

...Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them

Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the list. Rather, it might have looked something like this:1. H

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

She supposed this was the real definition of a mother – a woman who willingly allows her heart to break over and over again for her children.

One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the clouds, the trees. I pray to the wind that he will grow old and die well.

It's amazing to be a woman because even without children of your own, you can still be an excellent mother.

Motherhood has taught me that love is the best gift you can ever give to your children.

I struggle to discover what these silent sons of mine want, but words have always failed me. They are sullen even as they tell me they are okay. I know they are lying but there is nothing I can do.

I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.

The best thing she was, was her children.

At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.

Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.

You’re only as happy as your least happy child, ’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.

When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

Motherhood:The most exhausting, emotional, rewardingand life-enhancing journey a woman can take.

Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.

Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.

A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world.

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

WANTING to be anything is the whole point of feminism. HAVING TO BE SOMETHING is what feminists fight against, or at least the ones I know.

To her, not packing our lunches every day or joining the PTA is a feminist rallying cry.

I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother.

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion, " she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort, " I say.

P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.

Families that feel together, heal together.

Our ability to choose is sacred. It’s what makes humans special.

Whomsoever embraces their creativity along with their individuality, embraces all possibility deep within.

Creativity is the only way a man can ever experience motherhood.

MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh...

You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will become.” – Lady Lalaigne to Nhakira, “Chosen

There are so many things I dare not say I have quietly stopped being me.

We were immortal, did you know that? Did you feel it like me? We had the world at our feet and we were going to live forever. Then came life – growing inside you – and I became mortal.