Quotes About Motherhood

listen to these words of Ann Griffiths, a humble Welsh Calvinistic Methodist who was a farmer's wife and who died in 1805 at the age of 29 when giving birth to her first child: Gladly

do they know when we are well and happy? do they know when we recall their memories with the fondest love? In the silent hour of evening the shade of my mother hovers around me; when seated in the midst of my children, I see them assembled near me, as they used to assemble near her; and then I raise my anxious eyes to heaven, and wish she could look down upon us, and witness how I fulfil the promise I made to her in her last moments, to be a mother to her children.

A woman is a vehicle of life. Life has overtaken her. Woman is what it is all about-the giving of birth and the giving of nourishment.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

I had gotten pregnant and decided make this - what people might have thought as a wrong - of course, my greatest gifts in life.

Growing another life inside of you is one of the strangest, but most amazing feelings anyone can have.

The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.

the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

I don't have the hard everyday life that so many working mothers face.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.

I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

My weight and my pant size are the absolute last thing I'm concerned about. People who talk and judge pregnant women's weight need to get a life!

If women's role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.

I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

Before I had children, I was - everything about my life was devoted to "Saturday Night Live."

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

I see lots of women having beautiful children later in life. And, if not, just freeze your eggs!

When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.