Quotes About Motherhood

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

I have a daughter who reminds me of A marigold in bloom. Kle

I'm sure there are many women who would prefer not to have children, but few of them are honest with themselves about that.

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.

In a lot of ways, Mom is kind of badass.

Yet, as I will make clear, any Pleistocene woman who relied on looks alone to pull offspring through was not likely to be a mother very long or leave descendants.

A woman predisposed to be a mother can learn to love any baby, while a mother not so disposed does not even learn to love her own.

I'm a mother of five, and raising five babies, little children, you have to make use of time in a very effective way. So, I think that may have trained me.

It's hard to have little children and a job and career at the same time. There is no time left for you as a woman.

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

My mom had four kids, one with special needs. She had a full-time job, and she still came home and made dinner for us every night, from scratch. It was amazing.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth.

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.

Going into a pregnancy is a really challenging time for a woman, because it's forever-changing, both mentally and physically.

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.