“She gave him a strange maternal grin. For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I admonish Your Majesty, as the woman who gave you life and loves you like no other, to behave always in a… — Sophie Perinot Copy Share Image
People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
She'll really tell me [what she thinks]. Like today I'm wearing brown suede pants, and she said, 'I don't like your pants.'… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every… — N. Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
I always knew my mother loved me, but I also knew just as surely that there were moments, hours, days, when she… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“It would have surprised Mrs. Thornton very much to have been told that hitherto she had meant practically nothing to her children.… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, woman is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons people lock onto motherhood as a key to feminine identity is the belief that children are the way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody... as a mother, you have that impulse to wish… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I also feel like motherhood, especially, is seen usually in movies with this saintly veil over it. There's something about tipping that… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
“Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless… — Roxanne Henke Copy Share Image
In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn't leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Scarlett tells Mammy: "I'm too young to be a widow." She weeps to her mother: "My life is over. Nothing will ever… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
All mothers...single or married and all Fathers this is definitely a great quote and makes you think about making sure that your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I love being a mom and having two kids. But I've had two C-sections, and I have suffered enough. That's my favourite… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids… — Jody Watley Copy Share Image
I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention… — Mary Leakey Copy Share Image
We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were open, taking in my tired face... Her face twitched into what looked like a squinty smile, and in her… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
“Lo, everything that made me pretty was intrinsic to motherhood, and my very desire that men find me attractive was the contrivance… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins,… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our… — Jessie Bernard Copy Share Image
~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
There's a motherhood penalty because we've been long taught things that are stigmatized about motherhood. As workers, we don't want to talk… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
![“She'll really tell me [what she thinks]. Like today I'm wearing brown suede pants, and she said, 'I don't like your pants.' But then she'll say, 'You've got to wear these shoes.' Or 'That's so pretty, Mom. Wear that.' She's got a great eye.” quote by Katie Holmes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/563/katie-holmes-6657_brown_she-ll-really-tell-me-what-she-thinks-li_1104536.jpg)
