Book Quote by A. S. Byatt

People have this idea of motherhood, the same way they have an idea of women as we reach a certain age.

— Janelle James

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

— Gillian Flynn

“Motherhood—the way too many of us do it alone now—without an exaltation of female relatives, without a heft of knowing matrons to buoy us…

— Alexandra Fuller

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

— Romola Garai

Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because…

— Marge Piercy

I think we think that parenthood is confined to the country of mothers, but I think a lot of the men I've spoken to…

— Jennifer Gilmore

I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous,…

— Anonymous

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific andtorturous, involving…

— Anna Quindlen

People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's…

— Anne Enright

I think having a daughter is just terrifying. Women in the world get the short end of the stick all the time in many,…

— Kurt Braunohler

Motherhood may be a 'killer' when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that touch of…

— Chrystia Freeland