Quotes About Motherhood

This wasn't the sixth month of the year; it was 'six months after Elizabeth knew she was to become a mother'. Imagine the Lord using an expectant mother's growing waistline to measure time! Never doubt for a moment that women matter to the Almighty.

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

Women now were expected to quit work when they started having babies. The postwar U.S. government made this clear. There was no more state-sponsored child care. In a postwar, Cold War America, child care was viewed with suspicion, as the kind of thing communists used to raise their children collectively. The U.S. government began doing the opposite of its wartime recruiting; it made propaganda-type films telling women it was important to leave their jobs, return home, and tend their households.

Motherhood was the dividing line between brilliant women who stayed in the work and those who did not. For a woman with children, there were few resources to make a career feasible. The nation lost talent that the war had developed.

I'll never have a baby because I'm afraid I'll leave it on top of my car.

The demands of motherhood especially consume the old self, and replace it with something new, often better and wiser, sometimes wearier or disillusioned, or tense and terrified, certainly more self-knowing, but never the same again.

In my mind I first felt like, Oh, I'll be back to work right after the babies are born. But then you don't want to. Even now, it's very difficult for me to leave them in the morning. It just tortures me. I'm like, It's been hours; are they wondering where I am? Do they know that I love them so much and I'm thinking only about them?

I wake up in bed alone. The silence in my room reminds me of the emptiness in my heart. I failed at love--again. Except this time, it wasn't just me. I am haunted by the inescapable thought that I let down my beautiful babies, Max and Emme. I wanted so badly for things to have turned out differently.

I would want to be a very present mother. You know, something that I never had.

No matter how much we pretend otherwise—mothers, daughters, grandmothers—there is always a part of us deep down inside that remains the little girl we once were.

Our wombs are no place for poisons. Our babies have the right to be born toxic-free, it's time for a complete overhaul of the current system.

I remember reading a divorced woman's experience of getting to know a new lover after her decades-long marriage ended: "I will never lock eyes in the delivery room with David," she wrote. "I've never met his mother.

There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

My momma always said that two rattlesnakes living in the same hole will get along better than two sisters. So I had three daughters to improve the odds.

The whole birth thing though," Elle said. "It just seems like a poor exit strategy, doesn't it?

had five kids under the age of ten

If I were a man I'd be in the top 1 percent of all fathers. As a mother, I was a complete and total failure.

Once she was born, I was never not afraid.

Did mothers always try to press unto their daughters the itineraries of which they themselves had dreamed. Did I?

It also occurred to me that this was a promise I could not keep. I could not always take care of her. I could not never leave her. She was no longer a child. She was an adult. Things happened in life that mothers could not prevent or fix.

I get so sick of people asking me, "Do you work?" Of course I work! I've got five children under ten—I work twenty four hours a day! But of course they mean, "Do you work for pay, outside your home?" Sometimes I hear myself say, "No, I don't work," and I think, "That's a complete lie!

The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne until

To her amazement, the baby, even at this stage, was a fact, and not a choice of any kind. She