“What you call your life is not yours at all--not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often. .… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important. — Kelis Copy Share Image
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The Middletons and the Windsors might seem at first glance to be worlds apart. Kate certainly shows no sign of adopting the… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really. — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality — Iris Marion Young Copy Share Image
I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't. — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“I wish I had lost an arm or a leg. It would have been much easier than losing a part of my… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
