Quotes About Motherhood

I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.

There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.

The woman who picked us up when we fell down or wiped our faces or fed us lunch or yelled us down from treetops or out of mud (all of it so casually, with barely a break in the conversation or an extra breath) may have been our mother but could just as easily have been someone else's. We hardly noticed. The women merged into a kind of laughing, chatting, benevolent blur, a network of distracted love and safekeeping.

the sorrow she carried around that made her smile come a second too late and made her ears grow dull so that her children would have to call her three or four times before they could get her attention.

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

But in the same way that she wanted a marriage and a profession, she was determined that motherhood would not be the end of her career.

Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.

What does a wolf teach her pups but teeth and hunger? You didn't make me in your image. You made me into something worse.

Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.

For years, films had suggested this plot development by having one woman whisper into the ear of another, but some audiences snickered at this, so studios had begun using the actual words. "There must be a sweeter phrase for motherhood in pictures," wrote B. P. McCormick of Canon City, Colorado. "Don't say a mother is 'having a baby.' Let's get above the level of the cow having a calf. Motherhood is worthy of a sweeter expression.

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

My water broke.

breast-feeding little

her pain, Beck. She loved you enough for both her children.

Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

All mothers are slightly insane.

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.