Motherhood Quotes · Page 17

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even…

— Meg Ryan

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the…

— Dorothy Parker

“Women brought life but the most important origin stories spoke the real truth, which was that women more often brought death.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and…

— Adrienne Rich

My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the…

— Pink

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

— Annette Funicello

“This is the first lesson, Rhea. Men think they create the empires, but both are born of women. You will be a…

— Lauren J.A. Bear

Motherhood is exhausting, but you get to know the deeper ramifications of it as you go along.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

“A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight…

— Anna Quindlen

The moment a child is born, The mother is also born. She never existed before. The women existed, But the mother, Never.…

— Anonymous

“I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could…

— Kristina Riggle

I've always talked about having a strong maternal instinct... when Mum was pregnant with Alfie, everyone kept saying that I was going…

— Daisy Lowe

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your…

— Edward Everett Hale

One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my…

— Diane Lane

All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was…

— Meg Ryan

Single parent mothers who aren't spending their time looking for a man but spending their time providing for their children are the…

— Anonymous

“I have a word to say to my sisters. When I reflect upon the duties and responsibilities devolving upon our mothers and…

— Brigham Young

With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with…

— Crystal Eastman

“Two Songs For The World's End I Bombs ripen on the leafless tree under which the children play. And there my darling…

— Judith Wright

“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and…

— Avital Norman Nathman

“I understood and appreciated the miracle of birth, but I did not understand motherhood, nor did I appreciate the oveselling of it.…

— Anonymous

“A challenging career suddenly seemed more productive to me because I could measure the results of my work. These precious little ones…

— Sally Clarkson

“What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at his disposal.…

— Germaine Greer

“- A mother, a real mother with a little child, thinks day and night about the welfare of the little one in…

— Johann Christoph Blumhardt

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

— Art Linkletter

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

— Sophie Kinsella

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings

— Euripides

You don't take a class; you're thrown into motherhood and learn from experience.

— Jennie Finch

Womanhood is the great fact in her life; wifehood and motherhood are but incidental relations.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

— James Russell Lowell

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.

— Sheri L. Dew

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write,…

— Alice Walker

Happy Mother's Day To Moms who ¥ Hug their kids ¥ Support their kids ¥ Raise their kids ¥ Are there for…

— SONYA PARKER

This whole motherhood thing has really been, like, back to work from the get-go. It's sort of a balance.

— Lennon Parham

Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. Its so crazy how drastically even the small details change, in such an…

— Kourtney Kardashian

“Let us acknowledge the magnitude of Motherhood, by simply honoring all mothers— past & present.”

— Eleesha

I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.

— Drew Barrymore

Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.

— Kelis

The joy of motherhood: what a mother experiences when all her children are in bed

— Barbara Johnson