Quotes About Motherhood

I wore myself out physically and mentally over my career, and I couldn't be there for my daughters in ways I should have been.

Giving birth was probably the most empowering thing I've ever done physically. I was like, 'Now I can do anything. I can run a marathon... I can run three marathons!'

To lose two babies is really scary. It really caught on me emotionally, physically, everything. It took me at least 15 years to get over it and still, to this day, I miss my son.

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

Of course, juggling a career and a baby is tough but, as it's my business, I pick and choose.

Not only am I having a girl, but I picked the girl from her little embryo.

When I was little, I didn't have dreams to be an actress or a star; I wanted to be a mom, have a house and a picket fence.

I had babies later in life, and it's harder for me. You don't realize how often you're picking them up, and then your back goes out. You need the energy.

I love being a friend to my son. We go to the mall together. We shop. He picks out my clothes. We hang out. We go to different cities together. We like the same music. I think that's why he appreciates his mom and me so much - we treat him like a friend.

I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.

I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

As an incumbent, if you are winning, your commercials are about motherhood and apple pie and the flag.

There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.

I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.

There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it - I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

I didn't eat entire pies or pig out on junk... I gave life and no one can or should make a woman feel bad about her body when she just had a baby.

In between my first and second child, Pilates helped my body a lot.

One of my biggest goals as a mom is to be a pillar of strength for my children - to envelop them in love and address every emotion, but also to have them be absolutely sure that I can protect them in any situation.

I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.' She is everywhere because of the nature of film work. Not that I'm name dropping or anything like that. I have to pinch myself when I remember who I've been working with.

I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.

Sometimes I feel like women of the world who are single moms and are working in Walmart are the strongest women out there, and that's what's really exciting to me is being all these different types of women.

I didn't wander into motherhood or nonmotherhood unconsciously, recklessly. I gave it due consideration.