The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce. — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Motherhood is something that everyone should experience and I didn't want to be left behind. — Mandira Bedi Copy Share Image
“You’re only as happy as your least happy child,’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.” — Sarah Payne Stuart Copy Share Image
(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Every signal you get is like, 'Motherhood is the barrier to women's success.' — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest,… — Katy Mixon Copy Share Image
Many women are great at having a separate life that runs alongside motherhood because they've smartly worked out that they need to… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“being a good mother does not mean being perfect every single moment. we screw up. we get mad, we drink too much,… — Amy Hatvany Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I realized that it was not Ko-san, now safely ditched for ever, but Ko-san's mother who stood in need of pity and… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The right wing of the Republican party-- which controlled the White House from 1980 to 1992, crucial years in the evolution of… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Her boy—this child she raised on her own, in whom she placed her purest faith, to whom she read on countless evenings… — Stephanie Dupal Copy Share Image
“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“To her, not packing our lunches every day or joining the PTA is a feminist rallying cry.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel. — Natasha Gregson Wagner Copy Share Image
You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
When you were a baby, your mother put your happiness and well-being above hers. Your happiness was hers. She is now old...… — Navaid Aziz Copy Share Image
“If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
I want to understand rites of passage I've never experienced, like motherhood. — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
“Midlife doesn’t feel like a fork in the road. It feels like a goddamn roundabout.” — Bree Penfold Copy Share Image
Everything good about me, came from my mom. If I can be half the mother that she is, I will consider Motherhood… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“There are so many things I dare not say I have quietly stopped being me.” — Abby Fabiaschi Copy Share Image
The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it. — Victoria Billings Copy Share Image
Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I always wanted children, but not until they were actually part of my life did I realize that I could love that… — Cokie Roberts Copy Share Image
Motherhood is not only something very pure and very full of love, it can be full of dark things, too. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
“A mother's job is not complete till she has taught and imbibed God's Words, and principles into her kids.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
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