Quotes About Motherhood

I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.

Too many mothers have lost their children, for thousands of different reasons.

Most mothers think they are bad mothers. We all make terrible mistakes, often, and always think we're getting it wrong.

Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children.

May is the month when people focus on mothers more than any other time of year.

So many gay men are mothers to so many young people, me included. I've had gay men who were more mother to me than my own mother ever was.

It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better.

Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together.

We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but also of mothers who don't need to work and still fail to fulfill an impossible ideal of selfless motherhood. You don't have to look very hard to see the common denominator.

For me as a mom, not an allocated player, there have been some years that have been a difficult journey because NWSL doesn't really support mothers.

There are mothers who sacrifice their dreams for family and feel terrible about it. There are mothers who are career women as well, without being apologetic about it.

There are very few women in the Senate and very few mothers.

We have ambitions, we go on with our lives. We get married and have families. But I was interested to know what happens to those girls who become mothers and grandmothers. They sacrificed their self at a time when they were young and healthy.

If someone like Jennifer Lopez, who is the mother of two children, can still play strong, independent roles, why can't Indian heroines who are mothers be treated the same way.

We always talk about single mothers; the challenges they face. But the single father faces challenges as well.

It feels great when young mothers compliment me and ask me how I lost weight.

It is quite hard to be a working mother. At the same time, it is hugely rewarding. I have learnt to appreciate working mothers everywhere because millions of women are doing that, including my maid.

Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers.

No two mothers are the same.

Like all working mothers, I have guilt. Because I have to leave for work, I feel guilty about leaving for anything else.

I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

Biggest motivator, I would probably say my mom, how she takes care of seven kids by herself and how she raised us. She always an inspiration to us.

Unlike men writers who marry, most will not have the societal equivalent of a wife-- nor (in a society hostile to growing life) anyone but themselves to mother their children.

More than in any human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity.