Quotes About Motherhood

I did nothing to defend my own child, and now I fear that she will never recover.

Pero algunas lecciones hay que aprenderlas con el corazón también para entenderlas de verdad. Es muy fácil ser madre o padre antes de tener hijos.

Bein' born is craps. How we live is poker . Mamma played a bad hand well.

The nations of the earth that most vigorously foul the planetary nest and those in possession of the most destructive arsenals ought to be governed only by young women with small kids. More than anyone else, such mothers must live in the future, and they also face each day the realities of raw human nature.. This gives them a special insight

I don't want to judge you or anything, but other mothers don't talk about murder at the dinner table.

Hello sweet mommy. My name is Khalika and I am living in Gambia. I have read your requirements and am saying I am excellent candidate for professional job you are wanting. Please be immediate wiring two thousand dollars (American) for air travel expenses.

Love your own body like your mom loved your baby feet.

Breast milk and amniotic fluid carry the flavors of the mother's foods, and studies consistently show that babies grow up to be more accepting of flavors they've sampled while in the womb and while breastfeeding.

The Virtual Birth Center tells us how to prepare Placenta Cocktail (8 oz. V-8, 2 ice cubes, ½ cup carrot, and ¼ cup raw placenta, puréed in a blender for 10 seconds), Placenta Lasagna, and Placenta Pizza.

My only specific instructions were to keep him warm and dry and to guard him with her life when she took him out. "Patrick is the most important thing in the world to me. You'll understand when you're a mother yourself.

As Diana talked openly with my children and me, she made the statement that has defined her forever in my mind: "My boys mean everything to me. They're my life.

Mother and daughter got on very well indeed, with a deep affection founded on almost complete misunderstanding.

You are descended not from your mother but from her ovary. Nothing that happened to her body or her mind in her life could affect your nature

mothers are really just emotional hostages.

thirty-fifth birthday, and she was in her pajamas and bunny slippers, driving her daughter to school.

A man who is a good lover to his wife is his children's best friend.… Child care is play to a woman who is happy. And only a man can make a woman happy. In deepest truth, a father's first duty to his children is to make their mother feel fulfilled as a woman.

In the beginning, in a time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth, red-hot as fire yet relentlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep.

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers--strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.

There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.

Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences.

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.