Expectations Quote by Kathryn Hahn

I also feel like motherhood, especially, is seen usually in movies with this saintly veil over it. There's something about tipping that and showing…

— Kathryn Hahn

People have this idea of motherhood, the same way they have an idea of women as we reach a certain age.

— Janelle James

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

— Meryl Streep

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways…

— Ina May Gaskin

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.

— Sheri L. Dew

Motherhood is something that everyone should experience and I didn't want to be left behind.

— Mandira Bedi

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

— Gilda Radner

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

— Sharmila Tagore

“Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry ensures that…

— Jessica Valenti

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the…

— Charles Stanley

“Motherhood—the way too many of us do it alone now—without an exaltation of female relatives, without a heft of knowing matrons to buoy us…

— Alexandra Fuller

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

— Meghan Daum