Attitude Quote by Susan J. Douglas

“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

Discourse about motherhood is chillingly narrow-minded. It's a tool the patriarchy uses, of course. So people complain about their kids or they complain about…

— Samantha Hunt

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

— Gisele Bundchen

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish…

— Jessica Lange

There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to look and…

— Kathryn Hahn

“It’s harder than you think to admit your even occasional dissatisfaction as a mother without feeling instant guilt, an immediate sensation of shame for…

— Andrea J. Buchanan

Mothers are all slightly insane.

— J. D. Salinger

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way.

— Annette Bening

I'm pretty sure the feeling of inadequacy is universal for moms.

— Sarah Drew

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

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

Maybe it's just parenthood that puts you in a situation where you just have to develop a new attitude, I guess, about things.

— James Mercer