“I admonish Your Majesty, as the woman who gave you life and loves you like no other, to behave always in a… — Sophie Perinot Copy Share Image
“She gave him a strange maternal grin. For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody... as a mother, you have that impulse to wish… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
She'll really tell me [what she thinks]. Like today I'm wearing brown suede pants, and she said, 'I don't like your pants.'… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
Whether outside work is done by choice or not, whether women seek their identity through work, whether women are searching for pleasure… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“All these things we do bespeak a terrible anxiety: that our children simply will not be able to make it through life… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. There is nothing else in life except motherhood that costs so… — Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay Copy Share Image
“Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have failed to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I also feel like motherhood, especially, is seen usually in movies with this saintly veil over it. There's something about tipping that… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless… — Roxanne Henke Copy Share Image
Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn't leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“Lo, everything that made me pretty was intrinsic to motherhood, and my very desire that men find me attractive was the contrivance… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins,… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
There's a motherhood penalty because we've been long taught things that are stigmatized about motherhood. As workers, we don't want to talk… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
~I think what surprised me the most about motherhood, as sentimental as it sounds, is how much I love my kids. I… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our… — Jessie Bernard Copy Share Image
I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were open, taking in my tired face... Her face twitched into what looked like a squinty smile, and in her… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Motherhood is heroism. It is God-given, and yet men treat women as though of similar common clay, when in fact they are… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Perhaps there will come a time when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods-except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never… — Jessica Biel Copy Share Image
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We can have romance, love, sex, respect, self-respect, and fulfilling employment in whatever interests us, if we like. Motherhood doesn’t need to… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
Motherhood's a gift denied to so many women who are so deserving of babies, so whenever I feel like I need a… — Gemma Atkinson Copy Share Image
She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in… — Marcia Muller Copy Share Image
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
![“She'll really tell me [what she thinks]. Like today I'm wearing brown suede pants, and she said, 'I don't like your pants.' But then she'll say, 'You've got to wear these shoes.' Or 'That's so pretty, Mom. Wear that.' She's got a great eye.” quote by Katie Holmes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/563/katie-holmes-6657_brown_she-ll-really-tell-me-what-she-thinks-li_1104536.jpg)
![“Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have failed to support me in these contentions. I lost her thirty years ago [I was a child then]--nevertheless, ever living in my memory, she follows me from age to age. She suffered with me in my…” quote by Samuel Smiles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/samuel-smiles-2037_life-lessons_whilst-writing-all-this-i-have-had-in-my_2508705.jpg)
![“My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods-except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.” quote by Jessica Biel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52e/jessica-biel-17909_cereal_my-mom-was-a-hippie-we-weren-t-allowed-s_3014321.jpg)
