Quotes About Motherhood

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

Men rise through the ranks because of potential, but women have to prove themselves - while trying to have children and having no family leave.

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

Women are the carriers of life. We hold the fruit of our loving beneath our hearts.

So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have done this - so why can't I do it?

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.

Women innately have this weird thing where they try to have a perfect persona - to look perfect, be perfect, act perfect, have their kids look a certain way. Women put so much pressure on themselves.

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.