Quotes About Motherhood

She wanted to talk to the stranger who had kidnapped her son, to beg him to give her her Johnny back. She knew her baby was in there somewhere, and she would not give up.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

She had had affairs over the years ... but she had never been pregnant, never been a mother or a wife and it was only when she realized that it was too late, that it could never be, that she understood what it was that she had lost. Pamela's life would go on after she was dead, her descendants spreading through the world like the waters of a delta, but when Ursula died she would simply end. A stream that ran dry.

Pamela produced placid babies. They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, she said.

Louise remembered that odd fluttery feeling of having a freewheeling baby inside you, independent and dependent at the same time, an eternal maternal dialectic.

No one ever warned you about how ferocious mother love could be, let's face it, no one warned you about anything.

She remembered holding Pamela's babies – remembered Teddy and Jimmy, too – how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her own child? Perhaps too strong to bear. Over

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

In today's world, both men and woman need motherhood, the nurturing motherly feeling, the feminine energy. By receiving this energy, it will make them independent and free.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.