Quotes About Motherhood

'Workin' Moms,' obviously, is about mothers who also work. But we're also expected to remain graceful when we return to work, and that's just impossible.

All mothers go through the exact same things.

I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

I know what I want to look like. I don't want to look trashy. I want mothers to be able to look at me and not have to close their kids' eyes!

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

I think as mothers we are all just trying our best.

I have two children myself. I always laugh; they have you playing mothers pretty early, us women. You look at the television, the mothers get younger and younger, and the children get older and older, and you start to wonder when these people had these children. Were they breeding when they were 12?

The working mothers of America deserve medals.

As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.

I'll shout out to James L. Brooks. 'Terms of Endearment' always makes me cry. Also, 'Stepmom' always makes me cry. I guess, you know, mothers dying. It's a safe bet that I'm going to cry.

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.

As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers.

I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.

Mothers need mothers. Let's be there for one another.