Motherhood Quotes · Page 11

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

— Harriet Lerner

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

— Ricki Lake

“Motherhood is a fleeting season in our life, maximize every moment.”

— Jill Savage

Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

— Jessica Marais

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

— Gilda Radner

I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.

— Malaika Arora Khan

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

— Ayelet Waldman

“Only you can know what's true for you. I'll help you get there.”

— Ann Davidman

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

— Della Reese

“Mother, if you love her- Mother, if you love her, keep her clean. Mother, if you lover her, keep her-”

— Ami Mckay

“Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.”

— Abby Fabiaschi

“by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are the great vacationless class”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

— Mother Teresa

Coco is the greatest part of my life. I love everything about being a mom, but our talks and walks on the…

— Courteney Cox

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

“Humans are the only ones who refuse to co-sleep with their newborns. All other mammals do it, and in a loving manner.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

The best part of having two babies at once, a son and a daughter, is mostly everything. You're just having that feeling…

— Jennifer Lopez

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for…

— Ben Affleck

“And when she [her daughter] one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister, Give me the…

— Tina Fey

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

I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom.…

— Katherine Center

“Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of…

— Zeina Kassem

“Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them,…

— Karen Brown

“Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely do—the pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly…

— Tiffany Dufu

“In the dawn of my youth, my mother's gentle wake-up calls were met with defiant protests, a rebellion against the inevitable start…

— Waleed Tahir

“A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at…

— Gloria Ng

I hadn't been onstage in a while. The last time was pre-children. And before I went on [at Roseland], my kids were…

— Madonna Ciccone

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it…

— Diane Keaton

“Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the…

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who,…

— Bharati Mukherjee

All fundamentalist theologians make the ordinances of creation an essential part of creation and absolutize them. Women belong at home, fulfil their…

— Dorothee Solle

I think motherhood is a wonderful feeling.

— Tulsi Kumar

We may not want to say it out loud, but motherhood is hard.

— Stephanie Ruhle

One thing I know for sure - this motherhood thing is not for sissies.

— Jennifer Nettles

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

— John Kennedy Toole

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

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“When the last woman dies, the last man dies!”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

— Sharmila Tagore