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Quotes About Motherhood

Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.
~ Sushmita Sen
[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.
~ Gilda Radner
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
~ Louise Bourgeois
The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
~ Therese of Lisieux
There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
~ Glen Campbell
There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.
~ Jill Churchill
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
~ Sophocles
If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.
~ Gregory of Nazianzus
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.
~ Naomi Wolf
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
~ Jackie Kennedy
No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
~ Jessica Lange
Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.
~ Sharon Jaynes
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
~ Brooke Shields
My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.
~ Pauline Hanson
Be at your mother's feet and there is the Paradise.
~ Ibn Majah
Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.
~ Jami Gertz
At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.
~ Paula Cole
My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.
~ Tory Burch
I love being a mother...I am more aware. I feel things on a deeper level. I have a kind of understanding about my body, about being a woman.
~ Shelley Long
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
~ Arianna Huffington
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
~ Ann Oakley
I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.
~ Diablo Cody