Motherhood Quotes

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.

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up...

Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children.

Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When the...

Sometimes, especially as women, we don't feel comfortable giving ourselves that credit. We're selfle...

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight in...

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his org...

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as ...

There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our l...

Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mo...

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver ...

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished...

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come ...

I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instea...

I wonder if all mothers feel like this the moment they realize their daughters are growing up—as if ...

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to ...

(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she reali...

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or ...

Being a mother gives you a singular sort of vision, a prism through which you can see your child wit...

When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after...

Vic didn't have a car and probably spent a hundred and sixty hours a week at home. The house smelled...

Vic didn't have a car and probably spent a hundred and sixty hours a week at home. The house smelled...

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

The Astors and the Vanderbilts, their pleasure domes and money: she was sick of it. Sick of envying,...

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of m...

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

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...