Quotes About Motherhood

A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

I didn't really inhabit myself until I was in my 30s. And motherhood is an epic event. You can't help but be altered by it - and it is important to be.

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.

A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I didn't have to do this.'

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it.

I think motherhood is just about instinct.

Motherhood is such an evolving journey.

There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.

This whole motherhood thing has really been, like, back to work from the get-go. It's sort of a balance.

This whole thing of motherhood is insane.

For me, having a baby was never going to be timed randomly. I wanted to have mine while I was on 'Scandal.' Kerry Washington is one of my best friends, and I've gotten to watch her go through motherhood. I also have the greatest female boss in Shonda Rhimes, who is a mother of three and a huge advocate for women.

I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there aren't many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life's passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there's something different about maternity.

I don't think enough women are being honest about motherhood.

Motherhood has changed me completely; you are not in control of yourself.

Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.

For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children needed me, that I couldn't leave them for a second.

I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.

I wanted to talk to a lot of women about their experiences along the path to motherhood - or along the path to not being a mother.

Motherhood is far better than I expected. I love it with all of my heart.