Quotes About Motherhood

You may not be the person your mother wants you to be, but you are you. Our job here is to try and separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out who you are and not who your mother thinks you are.

But while she had been busy raising her children, the world had left her behind.

Every woman wants to get married and have children.

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You may not be the person your mother wants you to

Of course, she seems happy, Mabel," said Mrs. Gumms, "but you know, no woman is really happy without a home and children." Mrs. Bell said, "I'm not so sure about that. Oh, not that I don't love Lloyd and the children, but still…it might be nice to have a little time to myself every once in a while.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

Anyone can be a mother, but it takes a very special woman to be a mom.

She wasn't his mother, but she was his Mom, and that was far more important.

I don't remember my mother. She died when I was one year old. My distracted and callous sensibility comes from the lack of that warmth and from my useless longing after kisses I don't remember.

No. No. It couldn't be any baby. She was not going to have something waiting in her to make her deader, she was not.

I'd been doing shows, but I slowed down because I had a daughter and got to spend some time having more of a family life.

Single mommyhood wasn't fashionable in the mid-'70s.

I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.'

Growing up with just my mom, it went so well. It worked out so well. It was normal to me. I wasn't really looking for a father figure.

I couldn't even fathom the idea of having my own children out in the world and not know them.

My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.

I am very domesticated. Some of my favorite things in life are being a mother and a wife. That's where I get the most enjoyment from.

Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.

My favourite movie is 'Terms of Endearment.'

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

It's still one of my biggest fears, childbirth, but I'll definitely, definitely want a baby some day.

I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.