Quotes About Motherhood

The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

We loved our dad. My mom loved her husband. But at the end of the day, I think, he did what he was supposed to do in this world. He had five kids and raised us right. That's the most important thing.

The only thing that I can do is know that I have great confidence in raising children and being a great mother.

The only thing I never have unless I'm pregnant is heartburn.

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.

There's a part of me that never felt my mother abandoned me. I always felt that she did the right thing.

Don't overplan your life. Joining Google when I was four months pregnant was a bit of a leap, but sometimes you have to do the right thing for you right now.

As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

Vanni rocked Hannah back and forth, tears running down her cheeks. Hannah settled back against Vanni and looked up at her face. She put a pudgy little hand against Vanni's cheek and said, "Mama." "Yes, my little angel," Vanni said with a sniff. "I'm going to be your mama. Yes. Mama loves you." *

Want me to do baths while you cook lasagna?" "That would be good," she said. "And please, don't forget the hard-to-get places—neck wrinkles, backs of ears, between toes. Your mother checks those things." He laughed a little emotionally. "She does, huh?" And he thought how lucky he was to have a mom like that. And now both Hannah and Matt would have one like that, too. Fussy. Committed. *

Hannah snuggled close, putting her fingers into Vanni's mouth while she suckled. Then the suction broke with her smile. And without quite letting go of the nipple, she said, "Mama," in a very small, almost relieved voice. And Vanni began to cry. *

It was less than thirty minutes before her cell phone chimed. She glanced at the phone and saw it was Luke. She let him go to voice mail. Next was Sean, then Patrick and finally Colin. She smiled to herself; it was nice having all five boys in the United States. She let them all leave messages. She would entertain herself later by listening to them. Really, she thought with amusement, how did they think she got to be this old without knowing anything? Pups. They were just pups. *

You will never be happy, married or single, as long as you cling to this fantasy that some man will rescue you and make you safe and secure. Make yourself safe and secure. It's the only way you'll really feel that way. It's the only way you can really protect your children. In the end you will see that no matter who you're married to, you are responsible for your own happiness or security, two things no one can give you.

They're first, that's all. I could love you more than life itself and they would still be first. It's a commitment a mother makes when she has children.

Mel was going to breast-feed right up to basic training," Jack said. "I thought he'd be my only baby and I didn't want to rush him," she said, a tear spilling over. She got a very pathetic look on her face. On that note, Jack leaned down and scooped her up from behind, holding her. He had a unique sense for when it would work and when it would get him smacked. Right at that moment, she needed a little human contact, support from her man. "Then

The baby bounced gently off the wall of her uterus. She opened her dressing gown and put her hands back on her belly. It moved again, like a dolphin going through the water; that was the way she imagined it.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.

the believer enters into the reality of Mary's spiritual motherhood and her existing as the first person to have benefitted from the salvation wrought by her Son.

Are you such a coward that you would use a woman's babies against her?

When pressured, my mother told me that God just hadn't sent her any more children, but most of the time she liked to say that I was so perfect she knew she could never have another one like me, so she had stopped. Whenever she told me I was perfect, I wondered what was so terrible about me that she would have to lie this way to cover up.