Quotes About Motherhood

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers — and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that 'while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'.

it's what makes you grow up to have younguns and be a sho-nuff mammy all your own ... . A man ain't but trouble, just breath and britches and trouble

People assume that men make all the rules, but sometimes mothers are the ones who command girls to be quiet while they arrange for us to be sold like oxen or mules.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.

In those days she had been a sly-eyed little party, much younger than the crowd which had grown up with Minnie, but she had strung along with them and, when Jake Bernadine's first wife had given up in despair, had married and mothered him, enjoyed his strange pictures, and had children by him. Just

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

Life is only lived full-time by women with children.

A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!

Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.

Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured around the actions of women, does contain extensive portrayals of motherhood and peace-weaving marital compromise, female warriors, and speculation on what it means to lose a son.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, "What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

Giving birth is not a matter of pushing, expelling the baby, but of yielding, surrendering to birth energy.

Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

I think I'd be a good mother. Maybe a little overprotective. Like I would never let the kid out, of my body.

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed