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Quotes About Motherhood

For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and motherhood became a reality, the romcoms, like horoscopes, swiftly lost their allure.
~ Mariella Frostrup
unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
~ Betty Rollin
Men are what their mothers made them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well, once I had recovered from childbirth - then she caught herself short, and smiled. What a ridiculous expression; I see now that I shall be recovering until the day I die.
~ Neal Stephenson
I'm jealous of her. Can you be jealous of your mom for being able to handle things? I couldn't take a day off, take a dog to the vet, and cook dinner. That's like three times too much stuff for me to get done in one day. How am I ever going to have my own house?
~ Ned Vizzini
And hardly had she left her bed and become able to walk again without pain, hardly had the children returned from the houses of the neighbors, when she began to have her fifth child.
~ Nella Larsen
I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world.
~ Nella Larsen
Did you hear that Mitch? Your mom thinks you're beautiful.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Amanda olhou para ele - Tens de compreender que já não sou a rapariga que era dantes. Sou casada e sou mãe e, tal como toda a gente, não sou perfeita. Debato-me com as escolhas que fiz e cometo erros e passo grande parte do tempo a interrogar-me sobre quem sou realmente ou se a minha vida tem algum significado sequer. Não sou de modo nenhum uma pessoa especial, Dawson, e tens de perceber isso. Tens de compreender que sou apenas... uma pessoa vulgar.
~ Nicholas Sparks
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
~ Doris Lessing
I was worried about managing my time among shooting and with my son Kabir. He is yet small and needs me most of the time. But Yash wanted me to move on and get back to shoots. But I was nervous before starting shoots with my comeback show 'Ishqbaaz.'
~ Amrapali Gupta
My mom wasn't a movie star.
~ Jeff Bridges
I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.
~ Gloria Estefan
My favourite memory was the first time my mum bought me a bubble blower. I must have been the happiest girl in the world that day. I was all over those bubbles like a moth to a flame.
~ Debra Stephenson
I definitely want to be a mum. Lots of my friends are having babies, but I don't know quite when to do it. My mum says, 'There's never a right time; you've just got to get on with it'.
~ Amy Nuttall
Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!
~ Nicole Appleton
I love being a mum. It is the best. I always knew I would.
~ Suranne Jones
It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.
~ Denise Van Outen
Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time.
~ Nicole Appleton
I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
~ Julie Walters
For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
~ Rachel Weisz
I'm a hands-on mum and I'm lucky to be able to be that. I can remember the things my mum used to do with me and that time together is so important.
~ Brooke Shields
I feel like a semi-single mum.
~ Elizabeth Hurley
I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.
~ Andrea McLean