Quotes About Motherhood

I had been assured that, as long as I was still nursing Juan Martín, I'd be safeguarded against another pregnancy, but it turned out to be another of the lies peddled to women at that time.

Si pudiera permanecer inmóvil, sin hablar ni pensar, sin suplicar, llorar, recordar o esperar, si pudiera sumergirme en el silencio más completo, tal vez entonces podría oírte, hija.

A lot of women in New Zealand feel like they have to make a choice between having babies and having a career or continuing their career. So is that a decision you feel you have to make or that you feel you've already made?

I'm not one of those Hollywood moms where my kid is three weeks old and I'm a size zero. I'm a real woman and I'm a working woman and a working mom.

My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort.

The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.

When you're a full-time mum, you're constantly in that zone and doing breastfeeding and having a lot of boredom, too!

Every time the Houston Texans play at home, DeAndre Hopkins' mother, Sabrina Greenlee, sits in the same spot in the end zone, close enough to the field to hear the ball smack against the turf.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my sons illegitimate.

Sweetest li'l feller, everybody knows; Dunno what to call him, but he's mighty lak' a rose; Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' clost ter you.

Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife.

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.

My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet, I kiss her feet.

When their children flourish, almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.

I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.

When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.

It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.

I launched Little Lights of Mine because I was a young, 23-year-old new mom. I was home at the time and looking for direction. I started the blog as a place to just share everything. It quickly turned into a food-based blog where I would share all of my favorite recipes.