Parenting Quote by Gail Honeyman

“I understood and appreciated the miracle of birth, but I did not understand motherhood, nor did I appreciate the oveselling of it. To me…

— Anonymous

“While motherhood is an incredible vocation, it has no more inherent worth than a childless woman simply being who she is, to the utmost…

— Caitlin Moran

“As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing,…

— Jane Hersey

“Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.”

— Ruta Sepetys

It's no mistake that the moment of impregnation is called conception: at first, parenthood is nothing more than an idea.

— Michael Redhill

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service of reproductive…

— Angela Carter

“For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations of women…

— Jean Sasson

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

— James Baldwin

“It is not biology alone but heroism too that drives women to find the will and grit and creativity to put one’s own impulses…

— Naomi Wolf

“If you want to know what's in motherhood for you, as a woman, then - in truth - it's nothing you couldn't get from,…

— Caitlin Moran

“All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Enabling mothers and babies to fulfil this period of vital nurture is not a favour to women; it is a contribution to the whole…

— Gabrielle Palmer