Motherhood Quotes · Page 8

We may not want to say it out loud, but motherhood is hard.

— Stephanie Ruhle

One thing I know for sure - this motherhood thing is not for sissies.

— Jennifer Nettles

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

— Ayelet Waldman

Motherhood is beautiful. Everything [my son] does makes me so happy.

— Sandra Bullock

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

— Sharmila Tagore

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

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

— John Kennedy Toole

“A father is as much a verb as a mother.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Preston doesn't do well with trouble. But that's why I'm here. That's why my name is Mommy.”

— Sadeqa Johnson

“A mother who would stop at nothing for her child is dangerous woman when crossed.”

— Solange nicole

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

— Barbara Johnson

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual…

— Benito Mussolini

“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”

— Trevor Noah

I take a second sometimes to just remind myself there is no destination in motherhood.

— Lisa Haydon

“A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.”

— Stephanie Bishop

We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all…

— Gloria Furman

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing…

— Rose Kennedy

“...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and…

— Anne Fadiman

“What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence…

— Debbie McGowan

I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest,…

— Katy Mixon

“The gift of sustenance is crucial to motherhood: the mother providing milk for her newborn from her own body, created from her…

— Lisa E. Dahill

“The civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man…

— Joseph P. Bradley

Just because you give birth to a child doesn't make you a mother! Being a mother means taking care of your kids,…

— Anonymous

Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such…

— Kourtney Kardashian

“Every working mother has the things she dreads, things that keep her up in the night – pink eye, an ear infection,…

— Emily Roberson

A group of women who valued motherhood, but valued it on their own timetable, began to make a new claim, one that…

— Kristin Luker

On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your…

— Wednesday Martin

“I found that when women were able to act in line with their natural inclinations and ambitions -- whether to work or…

— Judith Warner

It [motherhood] has changed absolutely everything. I mean, it's changed my life. I think I've changed as a human being more since…

— Jennifer Connelly

“When the last woman dies, the last man dies!”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

— Abigail Van Buren

“Motherhood makes multiple personalities look normal and necessary.”

— Nicole Johnson

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.

— Susan Mitchell

Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

— Kelly Cutrone

Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.

— Judith Pugh

“She has had any number of foals. I yield to her judgement.”

— Katherine Arden

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

— Anna Quindlen