My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya. — Joel Madden Copy Share Image
“Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.” — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest. — Sandy Duncan Copy Share Image
“Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?' I am made of memories. 'Speak, then.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to… — Janet Goodfriend Copy Share Image
In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman. — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“Maybe she’d always wished to be beautiful and didn’t quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn’t say she was… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“This is one of the weird things about motherhood. You can predict that some of your best moments will happen around the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“[On visitors after having a new baby...] "Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets… — Claudine Wolk Copy Share Image
There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs -… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
“When I was a newly single mom with a toddler and a newborn, I’d cringe when meeting new people, especially other young… — emma johnson Copy Share Image
“I want a son with you,” he said huskily. “I want a houseful of children.” Her eyes sketched his face. “Dark-haired little… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“SHE holds the hand to help you in your First Step, She is your First Teacher, SHE holds your hand when You… — Debolina Bhawal Copy Share Image
I learned respect for womanhood from my father's tender caring for my mother, my sister, and his sisters. Father was the first… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge--that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears.… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
“The blend of motherhood is exploding, the ingredients are getting better by the day, and the flavor is getting stronger.” — Fadi Hattendorf Copy Share Image
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is when eating chicken soup; the kids get the chicken and you get the soup and you would still feel happily… — Sandra Chami Kassis Copy Share Image
“I was lounging in the kitchen, enjoying the small fermata between emptying the dishwasher and reloading it. It's a glamorous life.” — Abbi Waxman Copy Share Image
Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are. — Gabrielle Reece Copy Share Image
Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success. — Marie Pitt Copy Share Image
My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on. — Carolyn Rodgers Copy Share Image
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is… — Karen Maezen Miller Copy Share Image
“An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
“A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha. — Natalie Wood Copy Share Image
I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image