Quotes About Motherhood

In medicine, we refer to pregnancy as a physiological stress test.

It wasn't until I became a mother that I started to refer to myself as an artist as opposed to a fine art photographer.

Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

I am a hands-on mother, so I take long gaps between films.

My mum was very hands-on - she was a brilliant mother - and I think when I have children I will probably be the same.

People always accuse us of being overprotective with Beyonce. But I was the mother saying, 'You gonna go hang out? You gonna go to this party?' She was always just so durn easy, so durn mature.

I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.

I am happiest at home with the kids.

I'm happiest when I'm with my daughter and I don't have any distractions with my phone going off.

Nobody loves a baby more than me and I would happily have had about 10 of them.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

I would want to bring up my children. Therefore, I have no dream to make my mark. Instead, I enjoy economic freedom my hard work has given me. It means that I can give my children the best start in life.

The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work.

Work is hard, but being a mom is harder.

It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.

I'm one of those girls that cries at the drop of a hat. I'm oversensitive, if anything. I'm a mom. I'm very earthy, crunchy granola. I compost.

A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'

The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

I think when you wear so many hats, be it of a mom or a working woman, you need to feel good and look good as well.

I like to have fun, but I don't have a lot of time for myself. I do have eight kids!

It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious!

I don't want to scar people with my baby flab. I have this extra skin that's hanging. I'm in shape, but my skin, from having a baby, is not cute, hanging off of my baby.

I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.