Circles Quote by Honore de Balzac

Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn't leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there's…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Motherhood is not only something very pure and very full of love, it can be full of dark things, too.

— Leila Slimani

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

— Adrienne Rich

“Motherhood, more than most other types of love, quickly acclimates us to what true love is: an act of the will, not simply a…

— Carrie Gress

Mothers love is the most pure and selfless love. They love their kids with all their heart without expecting anything in return.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“We can have romance, love, sex, respect, self-respect, and fulfilling employment in whatever interests us, if we like. Motherhood doesn’t need to be our…

— Therese Anne Fowler

I had a different impression of motherhood. I was told it'll be tough but I realised that eventually it is what you make of…

— Lisa Haydon

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence…

— George Eliot

Motherhood is all about the purest of human experiences.

— Jessica Tarlov

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the…

— George Eliot

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

— Meryl Streep

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on…

— Pope John Paul II