Motherhood Quotes · Page 9

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood.

— James E. Faust

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

— Homer

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

— Pearl S. Buck

There is NOTHING worse in this world than seeing a mother cry

— Anonymous

“She made Pyrrhus, and loved him more than Achilles.”

— Madeline Miller

It's been so wonderful to hear the realities behind motherhood.

— Camilla Luddington

There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.

— Julie B. Beck

In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.

— Elbert Hubbard

“But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of…

— Jack London

“Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date.”

— Lisa Scottoline

I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest…

— Zazie Beetz

Motherhood and marriage are the best bits of my life now. Who would have thought I would be enjoying that?

— Rebecca Loos

A mother is she who can take all the place of other but her place is not taken by anyone.

— Anonymous

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Motherhood is far better than I expected. I love it with all of my heart.

— Ayesha Curry

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

— Romola Garai

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

Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's…

— Laurel Clark

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

— Anna Quindlen

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the…

— Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“Fatigue is epidemic among women in general, and mothers in particular. Mothers talk about sleep the way someone who is starving talks…

— Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D

“I don’t think the world should assume that we are all natural mothers. And it does. I don’t think it’s such a…

— Marina Carr

“I became a mother before becoming sick, but i never expected sickness to take away my independent mothering, so i plant trees…

— Nikki rowe

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we…

— June Jordan

“That’s what you might call the normal pattern of female life. I’ve seen many girls and women, with strong maternal instincts, keen…

— Agatha Christie

“She had watched other women with infants and eventually understood what she craved: the boundless permission-no, the absolute necessity- to hold and…

— Eowyn Ivey

“You are still a good mom if you -forget to click a selfie with your kid -set boundaries with your little monsters…

— Deeksha Arora

I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of…

— Beyonce Knowles

Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving…

— Anne Taylor Fleming

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

— Agatha Christie

Motherhood is the greatest thing Ive ever done in my life.

— Sara Rue

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

— Nancy Thayer

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

— Honore de Balzac

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

— Anna Quindlen

“These girls probably use double negatives and watch "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" with their babies instead of reading Eric…

— Natalie Taylor

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

— Jodi Picoult

“Motherhood isn't soft and cozy and sweet; it's selfish ferocity, red in tooth and claw.”

— Rosamund Lupton