Motherhood Quote by Diana Gabaldon

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe,…

— Kelly Corrigan

“I went into motherhood with some pretty romantic notions about what being a mom would be like. I certainly thought that raising kids would…

— Debra Sansing Woods

“Childhood can be a scary experience, depending on who is doing the caring and how daring the caring.”

— Art Hochberg

“The best predictor of a child's security of attachment is not what happened to his parents as children, but rather how his parents made…

— Daniel J. Siegel

“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call miracles rather…

— Sung Yim

“Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.”

— Leslie A. Gordon

“In countless cases, parenthood has been the worst attempt to contribute something positive to the world.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety, but also…

— Matt Bellassai

“Losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to a mother.”

— Savannah Page

“I overheard her tell my mother that it didn't matter anyway, because we were entirely too young to understand a term like indecent exposure.…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde