Motherhood Quotes
Anne Tyler
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
4199 Crystal Woods
My existence began the day you were created and was realized the day we met.
1969 Stephen Colbert
So, a word to all you Femin-Idi-Amins: Stop “liberating” moms by trying to
make them join the workforce. They’re already doing the job that God put
them here to do: Everything.
1515 Emily Matchar
American culture at large has failed working mothers.
3150 Emily Matchar
When we combine very real workplace inequalities with these romantic opt-out stories, the idea that "having it all" is a laughable goal becomes enshrined as immutable truth. And when we portray opting out as a simple matter of "choice," we ignore the systematic problems that make combining work and motherhood so difficult.
1911 Charles Bukowski
my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw
1684 Barbara Kingsolver
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after-oh, that' s love by a different name.
3700 Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
2553 C. JoyBell C.
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.
2627 L.M. Montgomery
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
1012 Nancy E. Turner
Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.
2103 Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
...always-
the sharp,
plaintive edge
on the rim
of the spoon
of my giving.
(lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')
2288 Abigail Adams
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
1648 L.R. Knost
It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
3656 Eleesha
Let your children uplift your burdens and allow your role as a mother - to flourish and grow.
3603 Eleesha
Motherhood furnishes us with, not just giving life - but, partaking of life’s learning.
4265 Eleesha
It is within your loving and welcoming arms that a new generation will arrive & be greeted.
4813 Eleesha
Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be.
1461 Miya Yamanouchi
You don't need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the true difference in the long run.
3480 Ruth Minshull
What is success, after all, but doing what you really want to do?
1721 Suzanne Collins
The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.
2228 Cassandra Page
On a good day, my style is librarian chic. On a bad day, it's frumpy mother.
4960 Ann Voskamp
I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify.
2501 Ruth Ozeki
Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's body. Only he wasn't a baby anymore, and how often did I have to learn that? The lessons were painful.
1748 Sara Sheridan
In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.
3073 Mona Simpson
Maybe she’d always wished to be beautiful and didn’t quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn’t say she was and more attention was given to other women, but she still had a frail hope that there’d been a mistake and she was after all.
2866 George R.R. Martin
For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
4573 Camille Paglia
Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of Arcadian fantasies of a lost golden age.
3219 Jeanine Henning Nhakira
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
2060 Shannon Celebi
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.
1871 Elizabeth Stone
Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body
3864 Yoshikani Taki
Mothers should negotiate between nations. Mothers of fighting countries would agree: Stop this killing now. Stop it now.
1684 Janet Goodfriend
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.
1773 Amit Kalantri
People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you.
1057 Philippa Gregory
But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I have to leave. Now he will take his first step without me. And every step thereafter, I know. Every step of his life, and me not there to see him walk.
1189 Nancy E. Turner
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
4888 Jessica Valenti
There's a reason why the assumed goal for women in virginity-movement screeds is marriage and motherhood only: The movement only believes that's the only thing women are meant for.
3562 Jani Ortlund
Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.
1928 Agu Jaachynma N.E.
A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.
3590 Agu Jaachynma N.E.
Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind!
1547 Agu Jaachynma N.E.
A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.
3600 Agu Jaachynma N.E.
A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.
3675 Agu Jaachynma N.E.
A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.
3405 Agu Jaachynma N.E.
A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.
4219 Agu Jaachynma N.E.
An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.
2947 Agu Jaachynma N.E.
A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.
3776 Agu Jaachynma N.E.
An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.
4567 Agu Jaachynma N.E.
A mother`s job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God`s Words, and principles into her kids.
3405 Agu Jaachynma N.E.
A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.
3312 Kathryn Michaels
The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way.
2127 Jandy Nelson
Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family.
Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.
4834 Frank A. Oski
Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it.
4481 Kate Gosselin
Leah: I want those gubs Mommy.
Kate: They're not 'gubs' they're 'gloves'
Aaden and Leah try and say gloves
Leah: Gloves!
Kate: Good job!
Aaden: Gubs!
Kate: No
3157 Quinn Cummings
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.
1442 Jonathan Franzen
The Astors and the Vanderbilts, their pleasure domes and money: she was sick of it. Sick of envying, sick of herself. She didn't understand antiques or architecture, she couldn't draw like Sylvia, she didn't read like Ted, she had few interests and no expertise. A paucity for love was the only true thing she'd ever had.
2850 Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting; Focus on the uniqueness of every Child.
3463 Kelly Corrigan
And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much.
4837 Jani Ortlund
When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.
1122 Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom and his focus. To him, a family was an aquarium: controlled, contained. To the women I knew, a family was everything.
3394 Kelly DeBie
A mother's love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends.
1791 Osamu Dazai
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.
4436 Barbara Brooke
Toys have taken over my family room. I watch Mary Poppins, and no matter how many spoonfuls of sugar I eat, action figures won’t march into a bin with the snap of my fingers.
1432 Jonathan Safran Foer
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write because that was exactly how it felt.
1307 Karen Brown
Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them, bottled up beneath their mother exteriors.
2137 Raquel Cepeda
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.
4174 N.K. Jemisin
In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.
4783 Betty Smith
It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
3527 Iris Marion Young
Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.
3008 Jodi Picoult
I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.
2966 Thrity Umrigar
And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I am like salt, which disappears when you cook with it. I am salt. Without my children, I cease to exist.
4638 Solange Nicole
A mother who would stop at nothing for her child is dangerous woman when crossed.
1742 Sylvia Plath
What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul.
2416 Diana Gabaldon
When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.
1559 Joyce Carol Oates
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.
2603 Caitlin Moran
And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?
3339 Antonella Gambotto-Burke
It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.
4533 Karen Maezen Miller
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
1840 Cokie Roberts
When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee wanted to prove to me that he had made the right choice so he worked hard and did well. If we'd forced him to go to college somewhere else all the incentives would've been different. Then he would have had a motive to prove that we were wrong.
2995 Virginia Woolf
Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.
4370 Tsultrim Allione
As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering of the world much more deeply.
4172 Gavin De Becker
When a baby is born the mother in particular enters into a new larger relationship with the world. She has become connected to all people. She is part of keeping us on earthnot the "us" comprised of individuals but the species itself. By protecting this one baby this gift a mother accepts life's clearest responsibility.
4396 Jhumpa Lahiri
He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy limbs. He was her flesh and blood her mother had told her in the hospital the day Akash was born.
2681 Kelly Corrigan
I snap and storm around and then spend long nights thinking of the most damaged adults I know and wondering if my particular brand of maternal fuckups are how they ended up like that.
2345 Ruth Minshull
If your child is constantly interrupting or doing other things to get your attention, he is not getting enough communication of the right kind. Just the fact that you are in the house with him all day does not mean that you are necessarily devoting any time to com- munication of his choice.
3626 Veronika Jensen
You and I. Hand in hand. An endless story of love. A love that grew in me for 9 months and only grows bigger each day.
You and I. Hand in hand. An endless journey. Countless steps. One destination - your happiness.
You and I. Hand in hand. My heart and blood. I'll share it all - take it - my whole life is you.
4586 Kelly Corrigan
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.
2206 Junot Díaz
Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled calamity.
Maybe she just doesn't like children.
Nobody likes children, Yunior, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.
4398 Mona Simpson
Too many times I'd left him reaching for me, from a babysitter's arms. "Am I still a mother?" I asked myself... What parts of the day could I cut out and still give him enough? Paul never asked himself that. He thought he was a great dad.
4452 Linda Becker
Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.
2010 Jojo Moyes
The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.
3357 Sarah Payne Stuart
You’re only as happy as your least happy child,’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.
2472 Chinua Achebe
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
2602 Shannon Celebi
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.
4844 Charlotte Pearson
Motherhood:
The most exhausting, emotional, rewarding
and life-enhancing journey a woman can take.
3452 Charlotte Pearson
In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me I can be. That means
taking charge of our lives, being strong even if I don’t feel it,being brave and believing that I can make things better.
2957 Andrew Galasetti
Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.
1737 DEB CALLETI
I remember the shift that occurred after Abby was born - there'd been the great big before, where dying grandparents and natural disasters on the news were sad but mostly distant concerns. But then I became a mother, and when that happens, you cross a line that makes all loss a crushing, personal matter.
1499 DEB CALLETI
I remember the sift that occurred after Abby was born - there'd been the great big before, where dying grandparents and natural disasters on the news were sad but mostly distant concerns. But then I became a mother, and when that happens, you cross a line that makes all loss a crushing, personal matter.
1448 Lydia Davis
At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.
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