“Whatever life brings, we'll share," she says, and "I can do no more than the best I can.” — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
How can feminism be pro-women without being pro-motherhood? There is nothing more unique about being a woman. — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“Oh, that boy is in so much trouble.' Exie screeches out of the parking lot as if Jerran can hear her.” — Jennifer Loren Copy Share Image
My mum took nine beautiful month to make my heart, so why would I even let a guy come from nowhere and… — J-Young Copy Share Image
There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
“A mother's love, it knows no end. It begins with a dream, with a silent wish, and it never ever ends.” — Kelly DeBie Copy Share Image
“Her failure to demand her needs, losing all of her years, sacrificing herself on the altar of motherhood to a son who… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood .… — Wilma Scott Heide Copy Share Image
There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
“For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“In order for them to be the best they can be, my children need me to be the best version of me… — Charlotte Pearson Copy Share Image
“One unforeseen advantage of having a child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content… — Catherine Sanderson Copy Share Image
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be… — Elaine Heffner Copy Share Image
For me, having a baby was never going to be timed randomly. I wanted to have mine while I was on 'Scandal.'… — Katie Lowes Copy Share Image
“I wrote about the rush of love, the changing of a woman into a mother—a process that happened without conscious thought, as… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a… — Ashton Shepherd Copy Share Image
In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at.… — Virginie Despentes Copy Share Image
“It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent.… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized. There's a whole industry around… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
“When she had him along, the world looked different, and she liked the way she saw things she'd never seen before. .… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“You will be a mother to many, for true motherhood lies in the heart, not the womb.” — Jordanna Max Brodsky Copy Share Image
“That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of motherhood. I think that is where our real strength is. =) — Jackie Copy Share Image
Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it? — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish” — Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett Copy Share Image
“It is within your loving and welcoming arms that a new generation will arrive & be greeted.” — Eleesha Copy Share Image
“I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“There's something about dealing in death that brings out the maternal in me.” — Leslie Langtry Copy Share Image
God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next. — Mary Pride Copy Share Image
In the process of turning to motherhood, you start learning so many things. — Esha Deol Copy Share Image
I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present -… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
