Quotes About Motherhood

Given all the time I've spent in the country, you'd think I might have seen a calf being born, but this was a first for me. The biggest surprise was how nonplussed the expectant mother was. For a while she lay flat on the grass, panting. Then she got up and began grazing, still with those feet sticking out. "Really?" I said to her. "You can't go five minutes without eating?

My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species.

mater regis ('queen mother')

Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lump of London clay, some grass, some white tubers, a dandelion, a fat worm passing the world through itself.

The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management of time—was beyond her. She measured time in pages.

This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

things that came naturally to females did not impress my mother, not at all. In her view you might as well be proud of breathing or walking or giving birth. Our

What do we want from our mothers when we are children? Complete submission. Oh

Only as an adult did I come to truly admire [my mother]...for all that she had done to claw some space in this world for herself

The fundamental skill of all mothers—the management of time—was beyond her.

Generally she kept her head down, but on the occasions she raised it she was treated to the most intimate of panoramic views: the scattered possessions of the three people she had created. Several small items made her cry: a tiny woollen bootie, a broken orthodontic retainer, a woggle from a cub-scout tie. She had not become Malcolm X's private secretary. She never did direct a movie or run for the Senate. She could not fly a plane. But here was all this.

Our mothers served as our balance, as our foot-rests.

Ah wanted to preach a great sermon about colored women sittin' on high, but they wasn't no pulpit for me. Freedom found me wid a baby daughter in mah arms, so Ah said Ah'd take a broom and a cook-pot and throw up a highway through de wilderness for her. She would expound what Ah felt. But somehow she got lost offa de highway and next thing Ah knowed here you was in de world.

Things like that gave me the first glimmering of the universal female gospel that all good traits and leanings come from the mother's side.

I could never, ever have an abortion.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

I've wanted to be a parent for a really long time, and I'm going to make sure I'm doing everything I can to be present in her life, to be her mother. I don't want to be absent from her life.

I'm accompanied by my mother whenever I go to Bangalore.

Being a mother is by far my greatest accomplishment.

I understand that for an average working mother it is difficult to take out lots of time for their child. But make sure that when you are with them, you cuddle them and listen when they share their day to day activities.

Whatever role was offered to me, I adapted well and did it with elan. A vamp's role is challenging, but a mother's role is comparatively easy.

As an adopted kid, it means a lot when I hear women say, 'I don't want kids.' I have a lot of respect for them.

I'm a mother and I adore my children. I live for them.

I adored my mother. I absolutely adored her and admired her.