“Mothering, she learned the hard way, was about loss as well as love.” — Attica Locke Copy Share Image
I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me… — Renita J. Weems Copy Share Image
“He says he needs mothering." "…Even if he didn't need mothering, which after all is only another way of saying he needs… — Hilary Mckay Copy Share Image
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Mina thought to herself, watching, her momma was the kind of woman she wanted to be, wherever else she got to in… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream,… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.” — Stephanie Bishop Copy Share Image
Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
“When we need to find something to blame for a tragedy, mothering becomes the de facto central influence in a child or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all… — Gloria Furman Copy Share Image
As motherhood as a "private enterprise" declines and more mothers rely on the work of lower-paid specialists, the value accorded the work… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm writing about motherhood, but I bristle a little bit, especially living with someone whose parenting falls between the cracks of… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth… — Sarah J. Buckley Copy Share Image
“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I can’t tell you what to do. No one can. But as the mother of two children, I can tell you what… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“For the majority of our marriage I was so busy mothering babies and nursing on demand that by the end of the… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Attachment mothering is not martyr mothering. Don’t think that AP means baby pulls Mommy’s string and she jumps. Because of the trust… — William Sears Copy Share Image
Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own my eyes, though… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Living the basic good-mothering guidelines enables a mom to blend the responsibilities of parenthood with its joys; to know when to stand… — Sue Woodman Copy Share Image
“All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives.” — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
For me, my sister is like a second mother to me anyway. Mothering comes naturally to my sister. — Shamita Shetty Copy Share Image
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Mothering well is a prayerful art. —Lori McConnell, Restoring Hope in a Woman’s Heart” — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. — Erin Kelly Copy Share Image
![“I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.” quote by Renita J. Weems](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2f8/renita-j-weems-57831_being-a-mom_i-cannot-forget-my-mother-s-he-is-my-bri_519226.jpg)
![“My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.” quote by Tim McGraw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ad/tim-mcgraw-3313_being-a-mother_my-mom-is-my-hero-she-inspired-me-to-dre_103511.jpg)
![“The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.” quote by Anna Quindlen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/205/anna-quindlen-467_apples_the-great-motherhood-friendships-are-the_1032177.jpg)
