“Mary’s new motherhood is not some vague or abstract sort of thing. It’s concrete and personal. And even though it’s universal, it’s… — MIC Michael E. Gaitley Copy Share Image
“Motherhood—the way too many of us do it alone now—without an exaltation of female relatives, without a heft of knowing matrons to… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“Every woman is a gift when she becomes a daughter, Every woman is beautiful when she becomes a lover, Every woman is… — Vivek Thangaswamy Copy Share Image
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all… — Ann Oakley Copy Share Image
Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized. — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it. — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift. — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
I have a whole new perspective on pregnancy and motherhood now that I'm experiencing it. Just because it's so hard and so… — Colleen Ballinger Copy Share Image
“Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be… — Christina G. Hibbert Psy.D Copy Share Image
There is no stronger love in this world than the love a mother feels for her children. She cries for them, she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed… — Andrew Galasetti Copy Share Image
“There’s no way I’m only meant to be a mom and wife. There’s got to be more in store for me, right?” — Bree Penfold Copy Share Image
I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I… — William Butler Yeats 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
“...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Being mom is one of my favorite things. It makes my day watching my kids grow and accomplish things in their lives.” — Amanda Penland Copy Share Image