All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
Single parent mothers who aren't spending their time looking for a man but spending their time providing for their children are the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
I've always talked about having a strong maternal instinct... when Mum was pregnant with Alfie, everyone kept saying that I was going… — Daisy Lowe Copy Share Image
Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
The moment a child is born, The mother is also born. She never existed before. The women existed, But the mother, Never.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could… — Kristina Riggle Copy Share Image
“She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someday you'll understand. You'll have your own children, and they'll mean more to you than the world. A wife has to defend… — David Walton Copy Share Image
I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
“I'd wrestled against the inner voice of my mother, the voice of caution, of duty, of fear of the unknown, the voice… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I remember the sift that occurred after Abby was born - there'd been the great big before, where dying grandparents and natural… — Deb Calleti Copy Share Image
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I have a whole new perspective on pregnancy and motherhood now that I'm experiencing it. Just because it's so hard and so… — Colleen Ballinger Copy Share Image
“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“--what's really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it's a… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
The best part of having two babies at once, a son and a daughter, is mostly everything. You're just having that feeling… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
“And when she [her daughter] one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister, Give me the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the most beautiful, exciting thing, and there's nothing that I feel like I can't accomplish while having children in my… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
“She felt a lump form in her throat, and she swallowed hard. She wouldn't have this-the swollen ankles and pink cheeks and… — Sarah Pekkanen Copy Share Image
The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but… — Kerri Walsh Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is the best and worst job in the world. No matter how great a job you might do, you always feel… — Marie Force Copy Share Image
“Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do—the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly… — Tiffany Dufu Copy Share Image
“Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them,… — Karen Brown Copy Share Image
I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom.… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“Friends who love us know that motherhood is about transitioning--and adjusting, constantly, to those changes. We must become masters of change because… — Meg Meeker Copy Share Image
“It is wrong to keep spelling out unnecessary choices that make women unconsciously resist either commitment or motherhood--and that hold back recognition… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
![“All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was a condition. It never computed. And there he was. Everyone made fun of me because I stared at him for months and months, not being able to believe he was real.” quote by Meg Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/af2/meg-ryan-12912_able_all-of-motherhood-surprised-me-it-surpri_2821764.jpg)
![“One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my life [Laughs], the most rewarding and deepening, so I have a delight in portraying mothers.” quote by Diane Lane](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c6d/diane-lane-3573_being-the-best_one-of-my-favorite-parts-of-myself-is-my_600573.jpg)
![“And when she [her daughter] one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister, Give me the strength, Lord, to yank her directly into a cab in front of her friends, For I will not have that Shit. I will not have it.” quote by Tina Fey](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/004/tina-fey-484_children_and-when-she-her-daughter-one-day-turns_1468714.jpg)
