Motherhood Quotes · Page 6

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood,

— Misty May-Treanor

Motherhood was my career. I'm totally satisfied with that.

— Ann Romney

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

— Felicity Huffman

Motherhood is always an act of courage.

— Stacy Schiff

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

— Anna Quindlen

Happy Mother's Day to someone smart enough to avoid motherhood.

— Anonymous

One of the worse things a mom can become is a bad mother!

— Bryan Burden

“She has had any number of foals. I yield to her judgement.”

— Katherine Arden

Before motherhood, I had a feeling that unmarried women are the strongest. However, that changed after my son was born.

— Navya Nair

I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.

— Carol Bartz

“Motherhood for her had always been a conflict between proper concern and far too much worry.”

— Stuart Nadler

It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.

— Viola Davis

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

— Sandra Scofield

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

— Natascha McElhone

“It's tough being AWESOME all the time, but the kids need someone to look up to!”

— Comic Strip Mama

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

— Aeschylus

I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about…

— Laetitia Casta

“Today in an auditorium full of parents my son scanned the room looking for me. When he saw me his face lit…

— Rachel Marie Martin

I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking…

— Beyonce Knowles

The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over…

— Anna Quindlen

“...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and…

— Anne Fadiman

“What would she have made of her life in the absence of childbirth? Maybe no more than she did in its presence…

— Debbie McGowan

I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest,…

— Katy Mixon

“The gift of sustenance is crucial to motherhood: the mother providing milk for her newborn from her own body, created from her…

— Lisa E. Dahill

“Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you…

— Marguerite Kelly

“I'll remind you of that someday , Maura says. "when you're married to a man who once looked into your eyes and…

— Emily Giffin

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a…

— William Faulkner

Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son…

— Lydia Hoyt Farmer

“She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult . Even…

— Terry Pratchett

There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped…

— Marni Jackson

Not rarely, and this is especially true of wives and mothers, the motive behind assuming a disproportionate share of work and responsibility…

— Hortense Odlum

“The terrible things that happen to us in life never make any sense when we're in the middle of them, floundering, no…

— Adriana Trigiani

I can't think of a single downside to motherhood now.

— Anna Quindlen

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

— Charlotte Pearson

Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.

— Judith Pugh

Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

— Kelly Cutrone

“Motherhood makes multiple personalities look normal and necessary.”

— Nicole Johnson

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

— Sandra Bullock

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

— Sharmila Tagore

“A father is as much a verb as a mother.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie