Children Quote by Susan Kelechi Watson

Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women…

— Siri Hustvedt

It's so hard to reconcile how weird it is to be a mom, and to feel empowered to bring to life a human, while…

— Greta Lee

Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what…

— Amy Tan

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

I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in general or from men onto women -…

— Hilary Duff

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.

— Megan Fox

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined…

— Anonymous

When you have a different mother, you want to be in her world. Because in mine, I didn't feel like I fit in.

— Patty Smyth

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

— Gillian Flynn

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

Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know…

— Rebecca Walker

I think because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers are omnipotent,…

— Siri Hustvedt