Affection Quote by Elena Ferrante

Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.

— Alice Lowe

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

— Romola Garai

“All the ways in which women become mothers of some sort. Is motherhood inescapably entwined in female life, a story every woman ends up…

— Cherise Wolas

“Our culture sends some amazingly contradictory messages about what an ideal mother is like. Mothers try to live up to these ideals without recognizing…

— Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D

Many women are great at having a separate life that runs alongside motherhood because they've smartly worked out that they need to hold on…

— Ulrika Jonsson

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads…

— Coco Chanel

The heart and life of a woman is much more vast than that. All women are made in the image of God in that…

— Stasi Eldredge

Women are weak, but mothers are strong.

— Julie Otsuka

Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that…

— Sandra Scarr

A woman by her very nature is maternal -- for every woman, whether ... married or unmarried, is called upon to be a biological,…

— Alice von Hildebrand

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events…

— Rachel Cusk

Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts.

— Jeannine Parvati Baker