Motherhood Quotes · Page 4

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

— Khalil Gibran

I don't think enough women are being honest about motherhood.

— Jenny Mollen

I think the secret of motherhood is EMPATHY.

— Terry Mark

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

— Olivia Wilde

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine.

— Mary Beard

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

— Sara Rue

[Never underestimate] the power of dinner.

— Julia Roberts

“There are lots of ways to lose yourself—motherhood’s just one of them.”

— Claire Fontaine

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

— George Eliot

“The highest aim of womanhood is not motherhood; the highest aim of womanhood is being conformed to the image of Christ.”

— Gloria Furman

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had…

— Dorothy Parker

ONCE A MOM ALWAYS A MOM... No matter how grown kids are, they will always be your precoius babies in your eyes...

— Anonymous

Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old.

— Danzy Senna

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

— Samuel Lover

Being a young mother doesn't mean that my life is over. It simply means that my life starts a little early.

— Anonymous

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars,…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

Thrust into single motherhood, my mom worked multiple hourly jobs to support my sisters and me. She couldn't find full-time employment that…

— Wes Moore

I think motherhood has made issues all feel much more urgent than they did before. So it didn't necessarily change how I…

— Jessica Valenti

I also think the women's movement has unintentionally contributed to the dishonoring of motherhood. It happened because we made such a big…

— Marianne Williamson

“Everyone insists [motherhood] is her purpose, and it drives her mad, the idea that the shape of her body determines the shape…

— Victoria Schwab

“You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will…

— Jeanine Henning Nhakira

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age,…

— Anne Tyler

I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes…

— Hannah Milhous Nixon

“We seem to feel as though the life our children have -- that we have built for them -- is just a…

— Judith Warner

“Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children…

— Margaret Sanger

What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the…

— Mary Blakely

Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility…

— Hortense Odlum

“The terrible things that happen to us in life never make any sense when we're in the middle of them, floundering, no…

— Adriana Trigiani

“There are many memories. but I'll tell you the one I like to think of best of all. It's just a homely…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult . Even…

— Terry Pratchett

There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped…

— Marni Jackson

The purest and ever lasting love is mothers love to her childrens.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

— Bob Hope

“No one will ever love me that much again.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

— Kate Moss

When I woke up this morning, I found I'd turned into my mother.

— Mary Rodgers

This whole thing of motherhood is insane.

— Katie Lowes

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help...

— Edith Stein

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

— Robert Browning