Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children. — Judith Pugh Copy Share Image
You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
When you were a baby, your mother put your happiness and well-being above hers. Your happiness was hers. She is now old...… — Navaid Aziz Copy Share Image
“I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel. — Natasha Gregson Wagner Copy Share Image
The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it. — Victoria Billings Copy Share Image
“There are so many things I dare not say I have quietly stopped being me.” — Abby Fabiaschi Copy Share Image
“A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.” — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Motherhood is not only something very pure and very full of love, it can be full of dark things, too. — Leila Slimani 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Being a Mother is a gift from God, a special gift that God puts into all Moms, a gift to love their… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Yes, it was the love of woman that was the danger, the obstacle on which her dearest wish might founder. How it… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Young women you will be the ones who will provide the example of virtuous womanhood and motherhood. You will continue to be… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
“Respect your children. Treat them like the person you admire most on earth. I really mean that as a way of life.… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
“Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an independent business creator. In… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
