Motherhood Quotes · Page 33

~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me…

— Amanda Peet

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

— Samuel Lover

“We all kind of hate each other in this minute, me most of all because I taught them the word bitch and…

— Kelly Corrigan

Moms are like life. You have it given but at some point you have to leave her.

— Mary Downlen

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Nevertheless the severance is rather casual and it drops a stain on our admiration of Nora. Ibsen has put the leaving of…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.

— Anita Bryant

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet

— Karrie Webb

I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.

— Mercedes Schlapp

All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for…

— Nelly Mazloum

“All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life…

— Judith Warner

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

— Kate Atkinson

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

— Christina Stead

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

— Victoria Secunda

All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of…

— Penelope Cruz

“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”

— Margaret Sanger

Every signal you get is like, 'Motherhood is the barrier to women's success.'

— Nia DaCosta

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized. There's a whole industry around…

— Meghan Daum

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

— Kathryn Hahn

I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing.

— Kourtney Kardashian

“Confession: Having kids did not fix me. I was not somehow more whole, less botched-up, or more certain just because I had…

— Jerusalem Jackson Greer

“Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing- reading stories about cabooses…

— Lionel Shriver

Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version…

— Catherine Mayer

My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that…

— Pearl S. Buck