Quotes About Motherhood

Aiyana is my heart that runs around and lives outside my body. We have spent the last nine years so utterly together. Bringing her up almost single-handedly has been exhilarating, exhausting and empowering.

Being a mum can be utterly overwhelming.

I did what any good full-time working mother would do and left my screaming toddler with my husband for three weeks and convinced Comedy Central to send me on an international work vacation.

Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose, and she taught us how to be valiant in the face of oppression.

For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.

When I turned 50, I truly felt I was too old to work in Silicon Valley. No one said anything to my face, but when you can be the mother of some of the people you're interviewing with, that says it all.

Women who choose to stay home and raise their families make one of the most valuable contributions to society. as far as I am concerned.

As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.

I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

When I had to go to school and could no longer travel to be with her on the set, she gave up her career. She felt the most valuable thing was family.

Let's face it: There used to be something tragic about even the most beautiful forty-two-year-old woman. With half her life still ahead of her, she was deemed to be at the end of something--namely, everything society valued in her, other than her success as a mother.

Where do you white women get the idea that having a child makes one weak and unable to do one's own work?

It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.

The men compete in what they do; the women in what they make,' she said, then smiled, 'including babies, though that is a very subtle competition, and nearly everyone thinks she is the winner.

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

Why doesn't every mother believer her child can change the world? The child can. This is the joke. Here we are still looking for a saviour and hundreds are being born every second. Look at it, this tiny capsule of new life, indifferent to your prejudices, your miseries, unmindful of the world already made. Make it again? They could if we let them, but we make sure they grow up just like us, fearful like us. Don't let them know the potential that they are.

Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything!

If you want to be treated like a mother," I said, "you should act like one.

Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

Any little girl whose mama disappears will always have a hole in her heart that nothing will ever completely fill.

Aujourd'hui encore, je ne puis voir sans plaisir un enfant trop sérieux parler gravement, tendrement à sa mère enfant; j'aime ces douces amitiés sauvages qui naissent loin des hommes et contre eux. Je regarde longuement ces couples puérils et puis je me rappelle que je suis un homme et je détourne la tête.

My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.

There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother.