Character Quote by Lysa TerKeurst

“Some moms are equipped by the hand of God to be “that mom.” They have been formed with the three-C gene — Cooking, Crafting,…

— Lysa TerKeurst

“Our culture sends some amazingly contradictory messages about what an ideal mother is like. Mothers try to live up to these ideals without recognizing…

— Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D

“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

“Parenting is a bit like baking a cake. You put all the right stuff in and do exactly what your mother wrote in the…

— Anonymous

People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always been influenced by their mothers. Their mothers…

— Georgia Holt

Mother has to be coerced into doing a lot of things.

— Bess Truman

“For many women,’ she said, ‘having a child is their central experience of creativity, and yet the child will never remain a created object;…

— Rachel Cusk

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.

— Zadie Smith

“All the ways in which women become mothers of some sort. Is motherhood inescapably entwined in female life, a story every woman ends up…

— Cherise Wolas

“Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist. I do not mean by this that every woman should be a painter, sculptor, musician,…

— Anonymous

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as…

— Antoine Rivarol