Motherhood Quotes · Page 4

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

— Rebecca Wells

“Motherhood doesn't have a nationality”

— Melinda Cross

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”

— Stephen King

“Bless your mum, who carried you for nine months in her womb.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it.

— Jessica Alba

The bearing and the training of a child Is woman's wisdom.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“When your eyes are fixed on the horizon of eternity, it affects your vision for motherhood.”

— Gloria Furman

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

— Lucy Lawless

Stifled does not strangle the throatof a woman can | be or whether it be mother | motherhood, it is the gift of God

— Mak_786

“Preston doesn't do well with trouble. But that's why I'm here. That's why my name is Mommy.”

— Sadeqa Johnson

Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Courage allows the successful woman to fail- and learn powerful lessons- from the failure- so that in the end, she didn't fail…

— Maya Angelou

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Please God, let me be a mother.” The world stopped. I ceased to exist as a woman with a prayer. I became…

— Ranjani Rao

... [the] special relation of women to children, in which the heart of the world has always felt there was something sacred,…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to…

— Ruth Ozeki

I'm not a perfect Friend. I am not a perfect Mother. I am not a perfect Wife. I am not a perfect…

— Anonymous

“This is one of the weird things about motherhood. You can predict that some of your best moments will happen around the…

— Tina Fey

“[On visitors after having a new baby...] "Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets…

— Claudine Wolk

I just always idolized maternal figures - how they carry themselves, how they take care of people. I've always loved the diva…

— Cole Escola

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but…

— Erica Jong

Just because you give birth to a child doesn't make you a mother! Being a mother means taking care of your kids,…

— Anonymous

It [motherhood] has changed absolutely everything. I mean, it's changed my life. I think I've changed as a human being more since…

— Jennifer Connelly

The central paradox of motherhood is that while our children become the absolute center of our lives, they must also push us…

— Ellen Goodman

“I found that when women were able to act in line with their natural inclinations and ambitions -- whether to work or…

— Judith Warner

As girls are given dollies and pushchairs while little boys are frowned upon for picking them up; while men are 'congratulated' for…

— Laura Bates

“Breastfeeding is a beautiful thing, one of the most beautiful things that exist in nature. Think about how a woman can literally…

— C. JoyBell C

“Dear Mothers Everywhere! First and foremost - enjoy your children! Rediscover the world with them, as they revel in the mundane and…

— Connie Kerbs

However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly…

— Mary Blakely

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

— Robert A. Heinlein

And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

— Allen Toussaint

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Motherhood is a gift not a guarantee...

— Lynda Stanton

“Because I'm your mother, that's why.”

— Leslye Walton

Mom; a son's first love and a daughter's first role model.

— Anonymous

Your children teach you so much. It's a real mirror of yourself.

— Kate Hudson

Motherhood is more than a biological imperative.

— Norah Vincent