Quotes about Motherhood

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. Votes: 6

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing. Votes: 4

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. Votes: 4

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. Votes: 4

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand. Votes: 4

Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy. Votes: 4

Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment. Votes: 4

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Votes: 4

Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me. Votes: 4

Motherhood changes everything. Votes: 3

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding. Votes: 3

Motherhood doesn't have a nationality Votes: 3

[Motherhood is] 'heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.' Votes: 3

Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent. Votes: 3

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism. Votes: 3

I believe in the Motherhood of God. Votes: 3

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt. Votes: 3

Motherhood is always an act of courage. Votes: 3

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes. Votes: 3

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work. Votes: 3

Motherhood is 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million joyous ones. Votes: 3

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing. Votes: 3

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that. Votes: 3

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short. Votes: 3

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness. Votes: 3

Motherhood is the greatest thing Ive ever done in my life. Votes: 3

Motherhood is beautiful. Everything [my son] does makes me so happy. Votes: 3

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention. Votes: 3

Motherhood is the greatest thing I've ever done in my life. Votes: 3

I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. Votes: 3

Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting; Focus on the uniqueness of every Child. Votes: 3

Motherhood:The most exhausting, emotional, rewardingand life-enhancing journey a woman can take. Votes: 3

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous. Votes: 3

Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it? Votes: 3

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody. Votes: 3

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched. Votes: 3

Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world. Votes: 3

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women. Votes: 3

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. Votes: 3

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives. Votes: 3

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. Votes: 3

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. Votes: 3

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor. Votes: 3

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there. Votes: 3

Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you. Votes: 3

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen. Votes: 3

Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important. Votes: 3

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies. Votes: 3

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you. Votes: 3

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do. Votes: 3

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. Votes: 3

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. Votes: 3

[Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools. Votes: 3

Motherhood is a blissful chainI have a mother - my precious giftI am a mother - the best of my kind! Votes: 3

Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind! Votes: 3

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism. Votes: 3

Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved. Votes: 3

Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches! Votes: 3

Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget. Votes: 3

Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling. Votes: 3

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot. Votes: 3

Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had. Votes: 3

Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share. Votes: 3

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot. Votes: 3

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death. Votes: 3

... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity. Votes: 3

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit. Votes: 3

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time. Votes: 3

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become. Votes: 3

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels. Votes: 3

Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience. Votes: 3

Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being. Votes: 3

Motherhood has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. It has taught me a lot about myself, about the things I'm great at, and the things I need to work on. Votes: 3

Motherhood was the beginning of my own journey asking the question, 'Why am I here?' I had to stop and think: What am I doing to teach my daughter? What do I believe in? Votes: 3

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do. Votes: 3

Motherhood is given the brush-off in our society. 'Oh, I'm just a mom,' you hear women say. 'Just' a mom? Please! Being a mom is everything. It's mentorship, it's inspirational, it's our hope for the future. Votes: 3

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering. Votes: 3

Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us. Votes: 3

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do. Votes: 3

Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'. Votes: 3

Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling. You do not collect children because you find them cuter than stamps. It is not something to do if you can squeeze the time in. It is what God gave you time for. Votes: 3

Motherhood is the most beautiful, exciting thing, and there's nothing that I feel like I can't accomplish while having children in my life. I would sacrifice having more years of being wherever I want whenever I want for years with my kids. Votes: 3

Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate. Votes: 3

Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother. Votes: 3

I've learned that it's way harder to be a baby. Everything is a struggle for her. For instance, I haven't thrown up since the '90s and she's thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it's like to be a baby. Votes: 3

I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful. Votes: 3

Mothers are all slightly insane. Votes: 2

Necessity, the mother of invention. Votes: 2

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. Votes: 2

Men are what their mothers made them. Votes: 2

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. Votes: 2

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. Votes: 2

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. Votes: 2

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? Votes: 2

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be. Votes: 2

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. Votes: 2

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you. Votes: 2

Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced. Votes: 2

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. Votes: 2

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. Votes: 2

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Votes: 2

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. Votes: 2

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact. Votes: 2

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. Votes: 2

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment. Votes: 2

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. Votes: 2

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Votes: 2

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. Votes: 2

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. Votes: 2

All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience. Votes: 2

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?' Votes: 2

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. Votes: 2

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. Votes: 2

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation. Votes: 2

There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies. Votes: 2

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately. Votes: 2

A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It's unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing. Votes: 2

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. Votes: 2

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that. Votes: 2

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew. Votes: 2

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs. Votes: 2

Motherhood is a choice you make every day, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong. Votes: 2

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark. Votes: 2

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves. Votes: 2

The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us. Votes: 2

Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason. Votes: 2

There is eternal influence and power in motherhood. Votes: 0

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood. Votes: 0

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine Votes: 0

However motherhood comes to you, it's a miracle. Votes: 0

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood. Votes: 0

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood, Votes: 0

Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing. Votes: 0

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success. Votes: 0

There is nothing more powerful and beautiful than motherhood. Votes: 0

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice. Votes: 0

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood. Votes: 0

What is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? Votes: 0

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now. Votes: 0

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today. Votes: 0

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. Votes: 0

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce. Votes: 0

Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us. Votes: 0

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously. Votes: 0

In many ways, being pregnant and working were more difficult than motherhood. Votes: 0

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality Votes: 0

You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience. Votes: 0

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. Votes: 0

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings Votes: 0

I'm loving motherhood. It's way harder than soccer, but I love a challenge. Votes: 0

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha. Votes: 0

...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work. Votes: 0

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd. Votes: 0

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it. Votes: 0

How's motherhood? It is absolutely wonderful. Oh, my gosh. It's truly indescribable and amazing. Votes: 0

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood. Votes: 0

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat. Votes: 0

My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it. Votes: 0

Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it. Votes: 0

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother. Votes: 0

The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed Votes: 0

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you. Votes: 0

I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net. Votes: 0

That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid. Votes: 0

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years. Votes: 0

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations. Votes: 0

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. Votes: 0

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake. Votes: 0

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood. Votes: 0

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it. Votes: 0

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it. Votes: 0

As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ. Votes: 0

Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date." Votes: 0

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life. Votes: 0

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible Votes: 0

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters. Votes: 0

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. Votes: 0

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman. Votes: 0

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next. Votes: 0

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success. Votes: 0

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me. Votes: 0

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. Votes: 0

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't. Votes: 0

This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body. Votes: 0

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. Votes: 0

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me. Votes: 0

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood. Votes: 0

I give praise and honor to the Holy one of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the blessing of motherhood. Votes: 0

At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood. Votes: 0

Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born. Votes: 0

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step. Votes: 0

Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really? Votes: 0

I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren. Votes: 0

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful. Votes: 0

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. Votes: 0

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's. Votes: 0

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really. Votes: 0

We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this. Votes: 0

Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood. Votes: 0

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess. Votes: 0

I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation. Votes: 0

I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus. Votes: 0

...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally. Votes: 0

Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie. Votes: 0

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. Votes: 0

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God. Votes: 0

I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing. Votes: 0

My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it. Votes: 0

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do. Votes: 0

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. Votes: 0

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power. Votes: 0

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is. Votes: 0

Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal. Votes: 0

A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared. Votes: 0

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and tortuous. Votes: 0

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way. Votes: 0

Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach. Votes: 0

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. Votes: 0

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood. Votes: 0

Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood. Votes: 0

Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are! Votes: 0

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter. Votes: 0

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate. Votes: 0

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? Votes: 0

All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and tenderness. Votes: 0

Until my Yoga practice became the great facilitator of all things in my life, the integration of career, purpose and motherhood felt like an unattainable dream. Votes: 0

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees". Votes: 0

Mother's Day, like motherhood itself, is fraught with peril. There are so many ways to get it wrong, so many opportunities to disappoint and be disappointed. Votes: 0

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible. Votes: 0

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race. Votes: 0

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither. Votes: 0

I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different. Votes: 0

New mothers should enjoy every phase of motherhood without caring about the world. Weight can be checked and controlled. Don't lose your head and mind over it. Votes: 0

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times. Votes: 0

The joy in motherhood comes in moments. There will be hard times and frustrating times, but amid the challenges there are shining moments of joy and satisfaction. Votes: 0

No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them. Votes: 0

In today's world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them independent and free. Votes: 0

The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures. Votes: 0

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood. Votes: 0

A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I didn't have to do this.' Votes: 0

As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline. Votes: 0

Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will. Votes: 0

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it. Votes: 0

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. Votes: 0

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood. Votes: 0

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood. Votes: 0

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity. Votes: 0

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things. Votes: 0

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion. Votes: 0

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter. Votes: 0

The issue of motherhood is no longer salient. In fact, the very first female bomber for Hamas posed in her last will and testament video with her two kids. Votes: 0

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay. Votes: 0

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears. Votes: 0

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood. Votes: 0

I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things. Votes: 0

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people. Votes: 0

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter. Votes: 0

First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people Votes: 0

The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood ... Votes: 0

I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show. Votes: 0

I've come to realize that being a mother makes me a better executive, because motherhood forces prioritization. Being a mom gives you so much more clarity on what is important. Votes: 0

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.' Votes: 0

The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place. Take time to listen, to laugh, and to play together. Votes: 0

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways. Votes: 0

Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children. Votes: 0

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could. Votes: 0

I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be. Votes: 0

No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all. Votes: 0

My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood. Votes: 0

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure. Votes: 0

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office. Votes: 0

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big deal about our right to go out into the world. Votes: 0

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist. Votes: 0

I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that. Votes: 0

I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity. Votes: 0

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives? Votes: 0

Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood. Votes: 0

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets. Votes: 0

True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church. Votes: 0

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins. Votes: 0

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood. Votes: 0

For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy. Votes: 0

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women. Votes: 0

Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people. Votes: 0

Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent years fretting about whether I'd ever meet anyone to have a baby with. Votes: 0

Perhaps there will come a time when... an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood... and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with. Votes: 0

Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy. Votes: 0

Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola. Votes: 0