Feel Quote by Patty Smyth

I felt like I really came into my own when I became a mom. My entire world changed.

— Kristin Cavallari

Being a mother is a completely different feeling and my life has changed completely. Plus I have a new found respect for mothers.

— Kashmira Shah

“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

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

— Natalia Vodianova

I am not into the mother sentiment, really. My heart is not into this ideal mother role; it does not work for me.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Being a mom has pushed me to want to make the world a better place.

— Anonymous

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

— Sade Adu

Being a mother impacts every aspect of your life. It's a rite of passage which gives you an entirely different outlook on things.

— Essie Davis

Mother' is not just about the physical mother but the fact of needing to be mothered, needing to have something that surrounded me.

— Goldie

It's a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There's this thing of, like, 'This is a model of womanhood for you,' but yet we…

— Susan Kelechi Watson

Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

— Carine Roitfeld

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

— Natasha Leggero