Motherhood Quotes

Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that...

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, th...

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me ear...

All human life on the planet is born of woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared ...

You are lucky, Renisenb. You have found the happiness that is inside everybody's own heart. To most ...

Motherhood was a twenty-four-hour-a-day, all-encompassing job. It was the hardest job I ever had. Ev...

There is an unspoken pact that women are supposed to follow. I am supposed to act like I constantly ...

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?...I imagined two people without w...

Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been p...

I remember at that time I went to the hairdresser's. I did this regularly, but I remember that visit...

The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering ...

H.L. Mencken once said that Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a...

A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, t...

there is still a kind of unique loneliness to child rearing for women. We so often do it in isolatio...

All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how compe...

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is ...

Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great ...

by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are ...

It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irr...

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down...

This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all rom...

Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on ...

On first hearing that little voice – as fine and friable, I felt, as cotton thread, the impact on my...

Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment ...

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – ...

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can invol...

My handsome husband and I didn’t make love for almost six months. I was enraptured, lost to my old l...

It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid o...

Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separ...

The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereo...

There is a world of difference between the experienceof 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing...

Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You hear your children will grow up to join the pat...

It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment...

I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock ...

Even if i'm setting myself up for failure, I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in ...

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists po...

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her no...

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for sm...

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the mor...

That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall l...

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike o...

But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when ther...

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be int...

The LanyardThe other day I was ricocheting slowlyoff the blue walls of this room,moving as if underw...

It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to ...

The Mother of God is asked to 'pray zealously to her Son and her God,' and the words of the psalm ar...

I have a word to say to my sisters. When I reflect upon the duties and responsibilities devolving up...

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered reg...

Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now ther...

It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother? Was it biology alone, or was it lo...

my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "...

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.

It puzzled him that she did not mourn all the things she could have been. Was it a quality inherent ...

Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary.

A father is as much a verb as a mother.

Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be...

If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be un...

...above all, let your focus be on remaining a full person. Take time for yourself. Nurture your own...

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

When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee...

Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me....

Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in.

Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-le...

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve...

she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it ...

If I had written the greatest book, composed the greatest symphony, painted the most beautiful paint...

I was lonely, deadly lonely. And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over...

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out o...

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast whic...

One would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. ...

Because what my gradmother did with her fine coat (the loveliest thing she would ever own) is what a...

If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by...

I also know that I won't go forth and have children just in case I might regret missing it later in ...

Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen ha...

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terribl...

Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes on...

Girls mature faster than boys, cost more to raise, and statistics show that the old saw about girls ...

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that som...

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

Some women are born mothers, some women become mothers, and some have motherhood thrust upon them. I...

Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's lov...

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. P...

If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity o...

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly ...

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, ...

What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at ...

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

I remind mothers everywhere of the sanctity of your calling. No other can adequately take your place...

...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachme...

The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty o...

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds ...

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashio...

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

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Mothers are all slightly insane.