Motherhood Quotes

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...

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...