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
“I respond to many names. Sometimes I am different people. Sometimes I am the me that howls in the night. Sometimes I… — Jessica Bates Copy Share Image
“Fatigue is an excellent gauge of well-being because it is a very hard symptom to mask. The only way to get rid… — Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
“I want to check into a hotel for the night, order room service, and eat French fries while watching reality TV until… — Lila Monroe Copy Share Image
“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
“Mary’s new motherhood is not some vague or abstract sort of thing. It’s concrete and personal. And even though it’s universal, it’s… — MIC Michael E. Gaitley Copy Share Image
Oh, for that remarkable and complex economy of motherhood. Those back and forth generosities-where one day a mom ferries the kids to… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“motherhood is not a job at all. It is a full-time, all-consuming, life-subsuming career with no pay, no stock options, no social… — Andrea J. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Things that remind me of Mother are these: the truth ‘mid deception, a warm summer breeze, the calm within chaos, a stitch… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying motherhood lacks meaning. There's great dignity in the smallness of motherhood; we're essential in our… — Lydia Minatoya Copy Share Image
“Consider one study that estimates a mom simultaneously and often single-handedly performs as many as seventeen occupations in the course of raising… — Andrea J. Buchanan Copy Share Image
People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as… — Anne Enright 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
“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
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
I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Just as there is no warning for childbirth, there is no preparation for the sight of a first child... There should be… — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all… — Ann Oakley Copy Share Image
“- It is clear that we have to come down a bit from the high horse of reason on which we enjoy… — Johann Christoph Blumhardt Copy Share Image
“Mary considers how the womb stirs and years for its children, even after they have grown and gone off to other lives.… — Walter Wangerin Jr Copy Share Image
“Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s… — John Eldredge 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)
![“I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.” quote by Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ba/lionel-shriver-744_annoying_i-first-foreswore-motherhood-when-i-was_350277.jpg)
