Motherhood is 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million joyous ones. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I discovered, quite early in motherhood, that the longest and most painful deliveries occur when you give birth to stepchildren. — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
Motherhood hasn't changed me much but the only difference I feel is that I have become more patient. — Kashmira Shah Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is a heavenly feeling, no other feelings can be matched to it from whole human kind.” — Komal Nirav Copy Share Image
[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet — Karrie Webb Copy Share Image
There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance. — Frankie Shaw Copy Share Image
The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Yes, I am his mother—I can say that now—for only after I released myself from my own expectations of motherhood did I… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is just that she learnt the value of the maternal cliché, the love that is always the same no matter… — Elly Griffiths Copy Share Image
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for… — Nelly Mazloum Copy Share Image
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Motherhood gives you access to a range of different intellectual experiences and ways of seeing the world, which, in a way, makes… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say. That swirl of hair on the back of her… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you… — Marguerite Kelly Copy Share Image
“I'll remind you of that someday , Maura says. "when you're married to a man who once looked into your eyes and… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It must be difficult to be a mother,” she continued thoughtfully. “To create and nurture and raise a tiny person, to invest… — Eda J. Vor Copy Share Image
“They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With nothing… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
“One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The Middletons and the Windsors might seem at first glance to be worlds apart. Kate certainly shows no sign of adopting the… — Ingrid Seward Copy Share Image
I think my positivity, strength, and maternal instincts came from my momma. — Jenna Dewan Tatum Copy Share Image
“Always, always, always love your mother. No one else will ever love you like she does.” — Ibn Jeem Copy Share Image
“They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.” — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
“JESUS CHRIST, WHO OPPOSES GOOD to evil, is our true Mother. We have our being from him, where the foundation of motherhood… — Lisa E. Dahill Copy Share Image
“A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures'… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I am not always a hands-on mother, but the feelings of motherhood are the same. — Rituparna Sengupta Copy Share Image
I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood. — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
“When the whole world made me think that, I can't do it, Thanks for making me, believe that, I can do it.” — Luffina Lourduraj Copy Share Image
[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God. — Nicole Polizzi Copy Share Image
I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.” — Jani Ortlund Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother, Rose, was as tough as an old boot - she knew her own mind. She was the first person… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
A woman's decision to carry a baby to term knowing that she will not reap the fruits of motherhood should be treated… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image