“I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.” — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“For Mormon women, however, motherhood is an identity, rather than a role.” — Nicole Hardy Copy Share Image
I'm a dad twice over, but I'll never feel like I know what I'm doing. My wife took to motherhood like a… — Jon Cryer Copy Share Image
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.' — Camilla Belle Copy Share Image
It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“While Motherhood is not perfect, we have the opportunity to share many beautiful and perfect moments with our children everyday. We just… — Debra Sansing Woods Copy Share Image
My greatest wish is that my children will always know how much I love them, and that they walk the rest of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was younger, there were moments where I said, 'I'm not going to have children.' And then moments when I wanted… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Becoming a parent is signing up to live your life constantly terrified. Half the time you're terrified something is going to happen… — Kirsten Millingar Copy Share Image
“Any general social responsibility for motherhood, or move towards the equal sharing of childcare responsibilities is immediately blocked off – this individual… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“Grief is shameless; it refuses to be ignored. If you let it have its way, it becomes fatal. If you try to… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
No matter what you read or hear, no matter what the difference of circumstances you observe in the lives of women about… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I ever have...I think there's something about loving Kai [her son] so… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“If the justification for controlling women's bodies were about women themselves, then it would be understandable. If, for example, the reason was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers,… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?" — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth — Proverb Copy Share Image
One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the most challenging as well as the utmost satisfying vocation in this world. — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
“Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on” — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right. — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
Being a mother is the highest paid job in the world. Since the payment is in pure LOVE. — Amina Sambo Copy Share Image
“She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The God has taken away the right of motherhood, The saying to sterile could not hail his heart wants to become a… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
“A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she… — Diane Grifith Copy Share Image
The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence. — Jane Lazarre Copy Share Image