Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different. — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. — Joan Blades Copy Share Image
Love is blind, your mother started loving you before she ever saw your face. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Til marriage and motherhood happened, I was devoted to my work. I didn't see anything beyond it. — Sridevi Copy Share Image
“Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
“I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“It is within your loving and welcoming arms that a new generation will arrive & be greeted.” — Eleesha Copy Share Image
God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next. — Mary Pride Copy Share Image
For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Motherhood may be a 'killer' when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“Fanfare for the Makers A cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what? To the small fire that never leaves the sky. To… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Back in the pens, once the herd was gathered, the men gingerly and methodically guided the calves into a separate gated area.… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“A woman who has acquired any kind of professional skill ought, both for her own sake and for that of the community,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Young women are closer to the time when they were manipulative and childish and they don't let their babies manipulate them as… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“When kids made a decision for themselves they have a vested interest in showing they were right. Lee wanted to prove to… — Cokie Roberts Steve Roberts Copy Share Image
“Because the truth was, there was a dark underbelly of terror to motherhood. You loved your children with such an overwhelming fierceness… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
“There's something about dealing in death that brings out the maternal in me.” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
In the process of turning to motherhood, you start learning so many things. — Esha Deol Copy Share Image
“Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish” — Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett Copy Share Image
Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it? — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“A mother's love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends.” — Kelly DeBie Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of motherhood. I think that is where our real strength is. =) — Jackie Copy Share Image
“That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“You will be a mother to many, for true motherhood lies in the heart, not the womb.” — Jordanna Max Brodsky Copy Share Image
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Motherhood brought me even closer to my own mother - I realised everything she'd been through. — Amanda Redman Copy Share Image
“I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise… — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
“She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~” — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. — Gaspard Mermillod Copy Share Image
