Quotes About Motherhood

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

I used to be twenty. Then I was twenty-one, twenty-two, and so on. And then I became a mother and could no longer even distinguish the difference between twenty-one and twenty-two or the difference between thirty-eight and thirty-nine.

In my experience nursing is waiting. The mother becomes the background against which the baby lives, becomes time. I used to exist against the continuity of time. Then I became the baby's continuity, a background of ongoing time for him to live against. I was the warmth and milk that was always there for him, the agent of comfort that was always there for him. My body, my life, became the landscape of my son's life. I am no longer merely a thing living in the world; I am a world.

the wild velocity of motherhood, an enforced momentum forbidding contemplation.

Being a mother is as beautiful and rewarding as it is painful and devastating. It is the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

Their trust in her was built of thousands upon thousands of moments already past. She was Ma, and that in itself was enough.

I'm saying that being a good mom isn't just about protecting your kids from hurt, it's about showing them how to cope with hurt. It's about teaching them resilience and giving them the tools to handle whatever comes their way.

You're only as happy as your least happy child,' is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.

And I think, as I'm surrounded by teeming life—parasites, fish, and children—I think, So, you thought you wanted to observe life? Motherhood shakes her head, clenches her fists, and demands, No, you must live it.

Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

She raised her head when she heard my step, and her gaze met my own, over the matron's dipping shoulder, and her eyes grew bright. I knew then how hard it had been to keep, not just from Millbank but from her. I felt that little quickening. It was just as I imagine a woman must feel, when the baby within her gives its first kick. Does it matter if I feel that, that is so small, and silent, and secret?

She was my one true love. Does that sound odd to you? I never expected, when I was young, that I should fall in love with my own child, but she and I were like sweethearts.

felt that little quickening. It was just as I imagine a woman must feel, when the baby within her gives its first kick. Does it matter if I feel that, that is so small, and silent, and secret?

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

Truthful, tick. Gentle, tick. Fearless? Well, she'd never told her daughter she'd disappointed her before, so tick, tick, tick.

The youngest mother in medical history was Lina Medina from Peru who gave birth when she was 5.

Heather Graham was raising children while making the time to write what has now become 100 novels.

I always say to people that working full time and being a mom is probably the hardest job, because as a mom you think about your child 24/7.

Ahhhhhhhh. There is nothing natural about natural childbirth. It is as close to a freak accident as anything I can think of. Why I picked a time like this to go off drugs?

I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine.

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.