Quotes About Motherhood

My stuff lives in Nashville but I live wherever my children are.

Many countries do not allow women to convey their nationality to their children - if they are single mothers, the children become stateless.

Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

I had both my children at home. It came naturally to me.

She loved the babies with every cell of her being but it always felt one-sided. They were too bad off to love her back.

Kellen felt like a scumbag. When she was a soldier, she thought she was doing the hard job. No one ever told her being a mother was a wiggling wormy bag of guilt, worry and difficult decisions.

Where, in all the self-righteous lying world, could she turn for a friend? She even thought angrily of her children—they were simply eating up her flesh as they had when they were at the breast, no less.

Women often are much more willing to fight for their children than themselves. -Airiana (quoting Max)

monsters and what they do. I'm not a qualified counselor, but I don't need to be to be your mother. I

She pulled down the blanket and aimed baby Sophie's bottom at him like she might unleash a fusillade of weapons-grade poopage such as the guileless Beta Male had never seen.

You will be a mum until the day you draw your last breath.

Short first pregnancies do not occasion criticism in our valley, for it is widely known that the good Lord often makes first pregnancies mercifully brief as His reward to the girl for having preserved her chastity until marriage. Subsequent pregnancies, however, usually run their full terms, which only makes sense, as the very fact that they are not first pregnancies means that the mother was not chaste at the moment of conception.

Her son must have folded her up, shoved her in, fired up the stove, and burned her into an ashen pile, ideal for fertilizer. That's why our tree kicked ass.

Tight-lacers were frequently compared to suicides and infaticides, torturers and murderers. They were bad wome, who solicited the lecherous gaze of vulgar men. Specifically, they were bad mothers - at a time in the late nineteenth century when motherhood was seen as women's sacred duty.

What does a woman who has lost her children care about a philosopher's definitions of good and evil? But what if life itself is evil?

Poate c? este timpul s? v? fac portretul lui Jasmin; dar în întuneric- fiindc? ferestrele nu se deschid niciodat?, de vreme ce Jasmin nu exist? È™i, prin urmare, nu poate avea mam?, ceea ce este incontestabil, dup? cum v? va dovedi urmarea acestei poveÈ™ti- în întuneric, deci, descrierea nu ar fi exact?.

mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God

The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.

Les bras d'une mère sont faits de tendresse et un doux sommeil benit l'enfant qui s'y abandonne.

the goodness of the mother is written in the gayety of the child;