Quotes About Motherhood

You are the daughter I always wanted," Rose said. "Ti amo." "And you are my mother," Elsa said. "You saved me, you know." "Mothers and daughters. We save each other, sì?

Not that I regretted having Annie; I'd never felt that way for a second. I just regretted that I'd never had a chance to live the life I'd thought I was supposed to.

Ben has never really known me. He knew the pieces I chose to give to him, the body that nursed him, the voice that scolded him, the hands that soothed him. But there is so much more to me, pieces that had nothing to do with my role as his mother, pieces I never let him see.

I have never met a woman who works who doesn't feel guilty. I mean we all deny it like crazy but deep down there is always that voice saying you should be at home.

An empowered mom must have the courage of a warrior and the persistence of a bull.

Being a mom is a big job, with small and memorable moments calling on our patience and building our character every day.

How many times have you carried the burden of thinking you have to live up to some ideal "fairy-tale" image of a good mother?

Being a mom often makes it challenging to take time for personal growth; I've never had a positive insight or come into a new awareness that didn't directly affect my marriage or my children in a positive way.

Thank you Mama for the nine months you carried me through/…No one knows the pressure you bear a just only you." —SIZZLA

Hush, little baby, don't say a word. Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird. If that mockingbird don't sing, Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring,

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

Can we mothers of boys hope to raise thoughtful, supportive, caring helpmates for the female achievers of tomorrow? Or are they, at age 5, or at birth, already too far gone? Where did those guys come upon their obsession with wiggling and wheels and weapons, their passion for He-Man and hockey?

Seventh bearer of the cursed name Akiva." Here he paused, speculative. "No Misbegotten ever bore that name to manhood before you. Did you know that? Old Byon the steward, he gave it out of spite. Wanted your mother to beg him not to. Any other woman in the harem would have, but not Festival. 'Scribble whatever you like on your list, old man,' she told him. 'My son will not be tangled in your feeble fates.'

She asked Janie what it was like to have a mother, and Janie leaned over and gave Zorrie a kiss on the top of her head and then turned her around and gave her a quick kick in her seat and told her that having a mother was those two things, and that if sometimes it was more of one than the other, it all balanced out in the end.

She was the smile that sent her three girls away to school every morning.

Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.

Give me the baby," Maryse said jealously. "You've had him for four whole minutes, Clarissa.

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve!

I am young. I will give her many fine sons. She will not wail over my death for many winters.

A baby ... Annie hugged her waist, so happy that it was difficult to contain herself. Someone of her very own to love. It was the nicest thing that had ever happened to her, barring none.

I can't go to my daughter and in any kind of a motherly way say, stop loving your husband so much.' 'We are not talking about love, dear; we are talking about possession.

And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

Whether your pregnancy was meticulously planned, medically coaxed, or happened by surprise, one thing is certain - your life will never be the same.