Quotes About Motherhood

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young.

I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

Talking to women about birth can be polarizing.

I've got three women in my life: my mama, ex baby mama and my new baby mama.

Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best.

I always see those jeans with the stretchy front on pregnant women, and they look like the dreamiest thing ever.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

Believing that all women should want to be mothers makes about as much sense as believing that all men should want to be engineers.

Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.

Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.

I don't understand how women can manage to get back in shape with a new baby and a job.

Right now women are using surrogates because they can't be pregnant. What worries me is the possibility that soon they'll use surrogates because they don't want to be pregnant.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Women can have their own kids and not have a husband or not have a partner.