Motherhood is 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million joyous ones. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s not about being seen. Maybe it’s about finally seeing yourself.” — Bree Penfold Copy Share Image
The success of being a mother is seen in her child's morals. If she molded the good behavior of her children then… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step. — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net. — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
My path to motherhood was challenging, to say the least, and I always feel like I'm living a 'Sliding Doors' version of… — Renee Elise Goldsberry Copy Share Image
Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong. — Joe E. Lewis Copy Share Image
A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom.… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
“All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do—the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly… — Tiffany Dufu Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is the best and worst job in the world. No matter how great a job you might do, you always feel… — Marie Force Copy Share Image
“The post-divorce lines around Gabby's mouth tugged down her whole face. She suddenly looks older. Older than the image Layla carries in… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“She'd once read a description of new motherhood that had struck her, at the time that she was returning to work after… — Jessica Strawser Copy Share Image
The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I think women should have choices and should be able to do what they like, and I think it's a great choice… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality — Iris Marion Young Copy Share Image
I know it has not been easy as I've tried to navigate the challenges of juggling my career and motherhood. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have a lot on my plate. I'm not going to lie about it, I'm tired. I'm really tired but I'm also… — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope… — Donna VanLiere Copy Share Image
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be.” — Eleesha Copy Share Image
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone. — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family. Maybe that was her color of… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
