Quotes About Motherhood

I might be the only one who's never taken a dime from my son.

Before I was a mum, I could live in another dimension, create another world, and it wouldn't bother me if I was not totally available or totally myself. Today I cannot do that anymore.

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.

I've never experienced the love I have for my daughter.

Women right now kind of have this idea of success - putting your career first and then having kids. On one side, it's perfect and it's a great plan, but on the other side, they don't explain to you that after age 35, you start losing eggs.

As an actor, it doesn't matter to me if I play the role of a mother, with or without make-up and so on. I focus only on getting the expressions and acting right.

I'm doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because I'm always working, but I make sure that whether it's the morning or nighttime, I make it extra special.

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

I do have to thank my mother for my eyebrows.

I have fabulous children.

But how can one criticise someone else's mother? One shouldn't, really... particularly as my first marriage failed.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.

If there's one thing any mom should have for fall, it's a peplum top.

You get sentimental on the road. I'd see a horse with its foal and a tear would come to my eye.

Now that I'm a mom, it brings tears to my eyes.

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

As mothers, women are often the first to know when the food they feed their children is tainted with pollutants or impurities, because they can see it in the tears of their children and hear it in their babies' cries.

'The Joy Luck Club' is not a perfect film. But, I distinctly remember watching it with my mom - and bursting into tears after the screening!

By no means do we think, 'Oh, it's cool to be a teen mom.' I definitely don't think that it's cool.

I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom.

People look down on teen moms and young mothers when they are the most gracious and significant women on this Earth. They sacrifice their freedom and their lives to give life.

I'm doing 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter' with Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly.

Being a teenage mum and a single parent hasn't been easy but I wouldn't change it for the world.

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.