Effort Quote by Gabrielle Hamilton

There are a lot of kids out there that look at me as their mother, and I have my two biological children, and there…

— Michelle Visage

It's a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There's this thing of, like, 'This is a model of womanhood for you,' but yet we…

— Susan Kelechi Watson

You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

— Kate Middleton

To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.

— Gisele Bundchen

There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to look and…

— Kathryn Hahn

When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years;…

— Rebecca Solnit

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

— Hillary Clinton

Mother' is not just about the physical mother but the fact of needing to be mothered, needing to have something that surrounded me.

— Goldie

I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound…

— Jeff Buckley

Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she…

— Mitch Albom

I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the…

— Hope Edelman

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

— Sade Adu