Motherhood Quote by Lionel Shriver

“Motherhood was a physical act as much as an emotional one. It took every part of you.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“She’d always envied beautiful women. Not solely for the beauty itself but because when attributes were parceled out by whatever deity assigned them, beauty…

— Tessa Dare

“Apparently women are phenomenal creature, but to be contented with ones own beauty is a risk only few can take.”

— Lawrence Okafor

“Though they spent so much time trying to make themselves beautiful, you were not supposed to admit to women that beauty mattered.”

— Robert Galbraith

“You are lucky in your looks,” she says. “Your mother was always a beauty and you are very like her: fair, slender, skin like…

— Philippa Gregory

“But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe they have…

— George MacDonald

“Listen, I didn’t ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents’ DNA, I’ve got them,…

— Simone Elkeles

“The concept of beauty is the straightjacket of a woman's soul.”

— Carmilla Voiez

“my mother knew that no woman thought she was beautiful, or beautiful enough, or beautiful in the right way.”

— Ann Patchett

“Among the beliefs I held about the world was that being beautiful should not matter to a woman, because it was one of those…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the…

— Kristen Ashley

“Look, life isn’t always wonderful. There are ugly parts. You know that more than anyone. What you do with those ugly parts is what…

— Jennifer Foor