Quotes About Motherhood

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

I feel very jealous towards women who can say, "I'm going to stay home and be a mom." I wish that's what fulfilled me but I like to work and I have to have something for myself.

Whatever consequences come as a result, in terms of work, I'm fully prepared to embrace because it's a priority to me to be a mother.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside-in the inner woman and her heart-and then works outward.

Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

I have this internal battle between, I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids. And the kids win.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

I left 'Coronation Street' so I could spend more time with the kids because it was difficult getting a work life balance.

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.

I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.

I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.'

The only thing that I stress out about is, how am I going to make sure that I balance out my time for motherhood?

My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself. She was just a joy because I didn't have the stress of a male irritating me, and I vowed that I would make absolutely certain that between her and me there would be a clear line of communication at all times.

Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you're there for everything.

My mom has passed down that you can be chic and look beautiful, and you don't have to break the bank. I grew up like that. She also taught me I don't have to stress all the time. She's always been a go-with-the-flow type of woman; that's how she raised us, and I find that's how I'm raising my little girls now.

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

I like to write, but being a busy mother, it is difficult to sit down and write at a stretch.