Quotes About Motherhood

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

Me personally, I'm real close to my mom. She raised me. It was a single-parent home situation. She did everything: cooked, worked two jobs, came home late, but she loved me to death.

I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.

My pregnancy was a free for all. I had no boundaries. I just ate, ate, ate. I just said, 'This is my time, these are my nine months; I can just have fun. How big can I really get?' Sixty pounds! I gained 60 pounds!

I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

I always did feel beautiful when I was pregnant, but I do feel more me when I'm my normal size.

I went up a pants size during my pregnancy.

I'm pretty sure that changing diapers of all sizes isn't the kind of women's work Betty Friedan had in mind, nor Linda Hirshman.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

I am a full-time mom; that is my first job. The most important job ever. I started my business when he started school. When he is in school, I do my meetings, my sketches, and everything else. I cook him breakfast. Bring him to school. Pick him up. Prepare his lunch. I spend the afternoon with him.

Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.

I'm a smart girl. There are decisions that I make for reasons, and the most important thing is that my son is happy and he always will be. He's surrounded by love.

A single mom tries when things are hard. She never gives up. She believes in her family, even when things are tough. She knows that above all things... a mother's love is more than enough.

As a mother would see her child, you should see the whole world as a beautiful place that God has created for you.

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.

There is no other love like a mother's love for her child.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

My dream was to fall in love and be a mom. I never thought too much past those two things.

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.

As much as I love being an artist, I love being a mom even more.