Motherhood Quotes · Page 12

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

— Sandra Bullock

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.

— Susan Mitchell

Women who miscalculate are called mothers.

— Abigail Van Buren

“Motherhood makes multiple personalities look normal and necessary.”

— Nicole Johnson

Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.”

— Gloria Furman

There is nothing special like mother's love towards her children: caring, protection, sympathy and love.

— Anonymous

“I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise…

— Lucy Robinson

“She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~”

— Susan Wiggs

I just feel motherhood should be a happy stress-free period for all women.

— Lara Dutta

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

— Gaspard Mermillod

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

— Deborah Norville

“Motherhood is the best and worst job in the world. No matter how great a job you might do, you always feel…

— Marie Force

“All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a…

— Peter Kreeft

I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was…

— Joan Didion

One of my favorite parts of myself is my motherhood aspect, it just turned out to be the best thing about my…

— Diane Lane

Behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the country herself, your…

— Edward Everett Hale

I've always talked about having a strong maternal instinct... when Mum was pregnant with Alfie, everyone kept saying that I was going…

— Daisy Lowe

A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I…

— Sophie Hannah

All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was…

— Meg Ryan

An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as…

— Clare Wright

“From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the…

— Nicole Krauss

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our…

— Andrea Dworkin

“The post-divorce lines around Gabby's mouth tugged down her whole face. She suddenly looks older. Older than the image Layla carries in…

— Lauren Beukes

“She'd once read a description of new motherhood that had struck her, at the time that she was returning to work after…

— Jessica Strawser

The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's…

— Caitlin Moran

We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit…

— D. Todd Christofferson

“I think women should have choices and should be able to do what they like, and I think it's a great choice…

— Will Schwalbe

“Motherhood means I’m always a little bit awake, a little bit alert at all times.”

— Shonda Rhimes

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

— Hasnat Khan

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

— Meryl Streep

The maternal impulse in animals to protect their young - that kind of instinct and subsequent violence is quite beautiful. Mythic even.

— Lidia Yuknavitch

As a Christian, my highest calling is not motherhood; my highest calling is to follow Christ.

— Rachel Held Evans

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present -…

— Natascha McElhone

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

— Rebecca West

I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

— Zoe Tapper

“Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a…

— Osamu Dazai

The widespread shame of motherhood is criminal, and it needs to stop. The world can never improve if you disrespect the people…

— Zawe Ashton

“Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish”

— Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

— Joyce Carol Oates