Motherhood Quotes · Page 46

“So I guess you were hopelessly romantic and easily distracted, a B-plus mother, certainly good enough to get into Matriarchal State University…

— Sherman Alexie

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

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

— Thomas Frank

“Progress is hardly ever dramatic; in fact, it is usually very slow. As every parent and teacher knows, education is never a…

— Johann Christoph Arnold

My greatest wish is that my children will always know how much I love them, and that they walk the rest of…

— Anonymous

For me and movies - and it is kind of similar to motherhood and raising your children - I always feel like…

— Suzanne Todd

I've never had a maternal instinct.

— Gabby Windey

Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk…

— Philip Roth

“I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify.”

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Rebecca Wells

“Evelyn was forty-eight years old and she had gotten lost somewhere along the wa. Things had changed so fast. While she had…

— Fannie Flagg

~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

“Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came…

— Edith Wharton

... [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

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

— Eleesha

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

— Betty Rollin

I'm somebody who, if I went to the grocery store, and one of them wasn't with me, I would feel guilty. I…

— Pamela Adlon

Motherhood is beautiful. Everything [my son] does makes me so happy.

— Sandra Bullock

My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on.

— Carolyn Rodgers

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him,…

— H. L. Mencken

Being a Mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children go.

— Nikhil Saluja

Sometimes I stand there going, 'I'm not doing any of this right!' And then I get this big man belch out of…

— Christina Applegate

President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the…

— H. Burke Peterson

“Reflection can be painful, but reflection can also be productive.”

— Charlotte Pearson

How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s…

— John Eldredge