Quotes About Motherhood

Many women who become mothers continue to alpine climb, surf big waves, ski steep remote slopes, fight wildfires, and more. And why shouldn't they?

these were the experiences I wanted my son to remember. The mother I wanted him to know. The mother I wanted to be.

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

The meaning of life is the smile of a mother.

I love every second of being a mom.

When you die, she thought now, you can no longer give love. You can't give love anymore. She wouldn't be able to love her children. It struck her suddenly as the very worst thing about death, worse than not being able to breathe or laugh or kiss. A kind of existential suffocation, to not be able to give her children her love anymore.

When my mother died, I sort of felt her inside me sometimes,' I say. 'Like I'd swallowed her.' He laughs. 'Swallowed her.' 'I still have moments when I feel that, when it feels like she's inside me, and there's no difference between us or that the difference doesn't matter.

I had come to worry about those women who were full-time mothers and homemakers by choice. Did other, more career-minded women have the right to devalue them . . . ? Maybe it was time to slow down and look at the role restrictions imposed not only on women but the men around them, to search for the balance that could promote self-sufficiency . . .

Of all the rights of woman, the greatest is to be a mother

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

Mothers are strong enough to let their daughters find out who they really are, and daughters are stong enough to realize that mistakes or no, every mother has done the best she can ... and if she's lucky, her own daughter will one day give her the same gift of understanding.

I couldn't deal with the kind of need for a man that had ruled my mother's life - the kind of need that made it impossible to breath when self-worth was wrapped up in "I love yous.

I watch a bird as it brings food to its chicks. How it looks after them, how it protects them. And then I say to myself, "You're a better mother than me" ' Hatidza Mehmedovic, mother of two sons murdered at Srebrenica

We mothers have to be part sleuth, I realized.

we mothers lose a lot of sleep, I realized.

College-educated Black mothers, for example, are more likely to die, almost die, or lose their babies than white mothers who haven't finished high school.

Plath was a feminist, in a broad sense of the term: she never undervalued herself or her work. She insisted that she be recognized as the talented writer she was even while her children were infants and she was spending more time as a mother and a wife than as a writer.

Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had, and dealing with fears you didn't know existed.

Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.

physically. The biggest worry for an abused woman is her small children.

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

Lo, everything that made me pretty was intrinsic to motherhood, and my very desire that men find me attractive was the contrivance of a body designed to expel its own replacement.