Motherhood Quotes

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one rec...

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don'...

A few weeks ago, my manager asked: "Do you feel like you're back? I feel like you're back." She mean...

When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling a...

The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new ...

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Fanfare for the MakersA cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what?To the small fire that never leaves the...

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

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

Our baby gives herself to me completely. There is no hesitation, no reservation, no holding back, no...

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams...

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the...

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the...

The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over ...

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

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free...

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its c...

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother...

Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of...

Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. The...

She knew better than to waste that time. There isn't always someone who wants you singing to him or ...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, fal...

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into th...

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

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

...if I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, ...

In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with...

I definitely haven’t been in the best place while working on this book, but I can say this much: Whe...

Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so ...

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't d...

Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant...

She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the uni...

From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me th...

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

Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, an...

All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. ...

Listen kid, it’s just you and me now, so let’s help each other out. Always be honest with me, and sh...

If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter ca...

He carries no burden, he feels no pain. What man, like woman, lies down in the darkness and gets up ...

Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. ...

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Carrie, sitting there over your coffee cup in a wasteland of worn-out silver wedding rings, feeding ...

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight...

Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forw...

When she had him along, the world looked different, and she liked the way she saw things she'd never...

Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name;...

Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have...

Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...

So I guess you were hopelessly romantic and easily distracted, a B-plus mother, certainly good enoug...

Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural nea...

Name?" the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised."Name," I said vaguely. I remembered, a...

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow h...

Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural nea...

Name?" the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised."Name," I said vaguely. I remembered, a...

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow h...

Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural nea...

Name?" the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised."Name," I said vaguely. I remembered, a...

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow h...

Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural nea...

Name?" the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised."Name," I said vaguely. I remembered, a...

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow h...

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twi...

So, a word to all you Femin-Idi-Amins: Stop “liberating” moms by trying tomake them join the workfor...

There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions we...

Mother seemed happiest when making and tending home, the sewing machine whistling and the Mixmaster ...

The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to ...

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

This is one of the weird things about motherhood. You can predict that some of your best moments wil...

And when she [her daughter] one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister, Give me ...

The best thing she was, was her children.

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

People say all the time that they’d do anything for the people they love. But would you really? Woul...

COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!”In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of...

Tired as I was of conflict, I felt that I must not shrink from the fight, nor abandon in cowardice t...

Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to ...

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

Throughout my life, I have never stopped to strategize about my next steps. I often just keep walkin...

I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurs...

This idealization of motherhood is essentially a means of keeping women from developing a sexual con...

Excuse my dress. I was half an hour late this morning. When you lose half an hour in this house, you...

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...