The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon… — J. Anderson Coats Copy Share Image
There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong. — Joe E. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinct, the wish to… — Le Guin Ursula Copy Share Image
“The journey of motherhood centers on being the person God has chosen out of all humanity and space and time to care… — Rachel Balducci Copy Share Image
My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods-except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never… — Jessica Biel Copy Share Image
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“I may be child-centric, but that doesn't make me anti-feminist. In an interview with Garage Magazine, Beyoncé (Queen Bae), who I can… — Erica Komisar Copy Share Image
I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention… — Mary Leakey Copy Share Image
You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
Love is blind, your mother started loving you before she ever saw your face. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It's incredible. Everything you ever thought about love just becomes night and day. I mean, you never thought you could love that… — David Arquette Copy Share Image
“Mary considers how the womb stirs and years for its children, even after they have grown and gone off to other lives.… — Walter Wangerin Jr Copy Share Image
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
“Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. — Aristotle Copy Share Image