Mothering Quotes

28 quotes by 27 authors

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. — Susie Bright
When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I… — Margaret Cho
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes… — Andrea O'Reilly
Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing… — David Steindl-Rast
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. — Robert Breault
You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not… — Ginger Rogers
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a… — Luther Standing Bear
Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung! — Carole Maso
No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the… — Ann Voskamp
Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe. — Bernice Johnson Reagon
Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents… — Anne Lamott
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole.… — Jessica Lange
Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally… — Dennis Prager
Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I… — Louise Erdrich
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… — Anna Quindlen
Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me,… — William P. Young
Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and… — Thomas Moore
I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part… — Erma Bombeck
This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and… — Kelly Corrigan

Who Wrote These Mothering Quotes

27 authors contributed a total of 28 Mothering Quotes, led by these top contributors: