Quotes About Motherhood

Black Moms create magic, so that makes me magical.

Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart, be real, but most importantly be nice.

No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

I am a feminist because in every woman I can see reflection of my mother.

There's still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then.

Men never feel quite the same about a woman's body once they know it's done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby's head.

A woman's endurance enabled your first breath.

She was mined for the childrenin her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single son to save them.

Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in at a close second.

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother.

A couple of female standup comics I know refer to their kids as their Little Career Killers. I was like, I really do not want to feel that way.

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

I am a single mom of three girls, and I'm getting through that. If I can get through that, I can direct a whole season of television that I star in.

My mother gave up her career bringing us up, and she has played a very important role in keeping us grounded. Even now I don't take my work home, my stardom home. It ends where it is supposed to end. There is a life beyond stardom, and it's a very normal life which I cherish. I anyway don't handle attention very well.

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.

Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the best decision I've ever made was to join Google in 1999. Worst decision? Deciding to get a puppy and a bunny right when the baby came.

When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remember thinking how crazy that was. Then I started reading up on it and decided it was something I actually wanted to try.

It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.

I'm 48 now and I would like to have another baby. I would love to because of all the things I have learned. It would be like starting all over again. But am I too old? I'm young at heart and I would be different this time round.

My day starts with my son and finishes with my son, and in between, I get to do everything else.

My goal is to keep the child alive. Once she starts talking, I'll listen, but I know that I'll need to join some mommy groups and ask people for help.

I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'