Quotes About Motherhood

Because of my unique experience as my mom's child, the beginning of my journey was more about me trying to figure out who I was on my own. My mom is one of the greatest moms and so supportive of all my siblings and of all of us being who we are, and not who she wanted us to be.

I've always been kind of a mom. I was out of my house when I was 18, and my friends used to call me 'mother' and 'care unit.'

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

In an industrialized country as advanced as the United States, no mother should have the fear of dying during childbirth or in the following months.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.

When I was 13, my mom said she had a dream that I would win Miss Universe in a red dress.

If I should have a daughter, instead of 'Mom,' she's gonna call me 'Point B,' because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I'm going to paint solar systems on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say, 'Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.'

My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University of Maryland's University College, bringing me along to do homework while she studied to get the degree she hoped would offer her and me greater opportunities.

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

I write the way women have babies. You don't know it's going to be like that. If you did, there's no way you would go through with it.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

Only Spartan women give birth to real men.

Women give life! That on its own is inspiring.Besides, women are prettier than men.

The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.

To marry and have children is the ideal life for a woman. What career could ever be as fine? To give the world splendid men and women-isn't that the noblest thing a woman could possibly do?

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their bodies, and of their capacity for ecstasy through giving birth

I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

Women, as mothers of the earth, deserve the utmost respect.

Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.