Quotes About Motherhood

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.

Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

A lot of the actors I knew threw in the towel when they became mothers. I couldn't do that financially, and I didn't want to - but I was knackered all the time.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.

I'm kind of lucky that we've finished shooting 'Cougar Town,' so I'm able to kind of just enjoy my pregnancy and be a stay-at-home mom and go to prenatal Pilates and do all that fun stuff that, if I were working, would be almost impossible to do.

My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness.

The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro's Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.

Azura is a complete joy and has changed my life. She keeps me on track. I want to make sure I'm the best person I can possibly be for her.

I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would have traded them for.

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.

Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength

Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

You can't always trust your mother.

When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

She seemed born to be a mother and chose to love almost everything about it.

They all looked alike to me, so I checked the I.D. tag and found that the one crying was labeled 'Baby Girl Nelson, Room 571.' That was an inspiration to me. Dantzel knew her child's voice even before she had ever heard it. I couldn't help but think about the Savior's statement that 'my sheep know my voice.'" In this case, the "shepherd" knew the voice of her sheep.

If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.